adv.; also 6 on gogge. [perh. ad. OFr. en gogues (15th c. in Littré ‘il estoit en gogues’; Cotgr. ‘estre en ses gogues to be frolicke, lustie, lively, wanton, gamesome, all-a-hoit, in a pleasant humour; in a veine of mirth, or in a merrie mood’), f. gogue ‘fun, diversion,’ of unknown origin. (See conjectures in Diez and Skeat. Prof. Rhys finds no etymon in Celtic.) Cf. also Fr. vivre à gogo to live like a lord, in abundance; see Littré.] In eager readiness, expectation or desire; on the move, astir. Const. inf., on, upon, for, with, about.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apophth. (1877), 329. Beeying set agog to thinke all the worlde otemele.
1559. Myrroure for Mag., Glendour, xxiii. 1. And for to set us hereon more agog.
1575. Turberville, Booke of Venerie, 92. To sette mens myndes on gogge.
1600. Holland, Livy, XLV. xxxv. 1225 c. These words set them agog [His verbis incitatis].
1656. Trapp, Exp. John xi. 53 (1868), 385/2. To set men agog upon mischief.
1663. Cowley, Cutter of Colem. St., V. xiii. (1710), II. 892. I ha’ set her agog to Day for a Husband.
1782. Cowper, Gilpin, x. Six precious souls and all agog To dash through thick and thin.
1792. Gouv. Morris, in Sparks’ Life (1832), II. 230. They are now agog with their republic.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. XIII. ix. 100. The Eldest, age fourteen, had gone quite agog about my little Girl, age only nine.
