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Eager
or eagre. Sharp, keen, acid; the French aigre.
(Latin, crude form, acr- “acer,” sharp.)
It doth posset
And curd, like eager droppings into milk.
Shakespeare: Hamlet,
i. 5.
“Vex him with eager words.”
Shakespeare: Henry VI.,
ii. 4.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Eager from Infoplease:
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