different between eagre vs eager

English

Etymology 1

See eager.

Adjective

eagre (comparative more eagre, superlative most eagre)

1. Obsolete form of eager.
   • 1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, Book III., Chapter VII., page #66:

     How?oeuer it were, the Lacedæmonians being no le??e wearied of the warre, than the Athenians were eagre to pur?ue it, the one obtained their ea?e, and the other the execution and honor which they de?ired : for all the Greekes (tho?e of Peloponme?us excepted) willingly ?ubiected them?elues to the commandment of the Athenians which was both beginning of their greatne??e in that pre?ent age, and of their ruine in the next ?ucceeding.

Etymology 2

Not attested in Middle English; either from Old English ?agor (“water, sea”) or Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”), however, both possibilities fail to show the phonological outcome one would expect.

Alternative forms

• aegir, eger, egre, eygre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e???(?)/, /?i???(?)/
• Rhymes: -e???(r), -i???(r)

Noun

eagre (plural eagres)

1. a tidal bore

Translations

Synonyms

• tidal bore, bore

References

• “eagre”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Eager, aeger, agree, eager, geare, æger

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i???/
• Rhymes: -i???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English egre, eger, from Old French egre (French aigre), from Latin acer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

Alternative forms

• aigre (obsolete)
• eagre (obsolete)

Adjective

eager (comparative more eager, superlative most eager)

1. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
   • 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year

     When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.

   • a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
2. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

   an eager algorithm

3. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

   • gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself

4. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
5. (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

Synonyms

• keen
• raring
• fain (archaic)

Derived terms

• eager beaver
• eagerly
• eagerness

Translations

Etymology 2

See eagre.

Noun

eager (plural eagers)

1. Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).

Further reading

• eager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• eager in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• eager at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• aeger, agree, eagre, geare, æger