eager

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Italic *akris Classical Latin ācer Late Latin ācrus Old French aigrebor. Middle English egre English eager Inherited from Middle English egre, eger, from Old French aigre, egre (modern French aigre), from Latin ācrus, variant of ācer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

1. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

   “Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.”

   “The hounds were eager in the chase.”

2. Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

   “an eager algorithm”

3. 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. Sharp; sour; acid.

   “like eager droppings into milk”

5. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

   “If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words.”

   “It is a nipping and an eager air.”

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: See eagre.

1. Alternative form of eagre (“tidal bor”).

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós Proto-Italic *akris Classical Latin ācer Late Latin ācrus Old French aigrebor. Middle English egre English eager Inherited from Middle English egre, eger, from Old French aigre, egre (modern French aigre), from Latin ācrus, variant of ācer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

1. To be or become eager.

   “Now everybody considered it a high privilege (valued it at a high consideration) to see him and to hear him speak, and to obey his command (him commanding), whereas he, though being such a person, eagered to be unknown, and to escape notice in solitude.”

   “Our spirits fret and chafe like sea waves on the rocks eagering to climb the shore.”

2. To express eagerness.

   “His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered.”

   “Peg! eager voices eagered voicely.”

3. To make or encourage to be eager

   “Physicians also admit to eagering patients to turn to specialised web sites in order to read further.”

   “But they only eagered him to be off .”