What is the definition of raring?
Raring is an adjective, meaning enthusiastic, very eager or anxious, ready and willing. An example of raring in a sentence: The sales employees were raring to go after the manager gave large bonuses to the staff.
Another use of raring in a sentence: The honor student was raring to get back to her courses after the spring break.
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Maggi
I'm raring to answer the rest of the questions 😜🤣
Chris Brown
Etymology of raring = rearing: Extremely eager to get started. This American locution of the late nineteenth century uses raring for rearing, the verb still used for what a lively horse does when it stands on its hind legs and is clearly eager to get moving. A colloquialism of the twentieth century, it appeared in F. N.
Michael Garmaise
Carroll Price, I had thought it was a variation if “roaring” but your explanation is better.
dlh
Got it in one!
DIVER DEAN
Is it in fact a word, or rather a colloquialism?
Steve Andriot
I was raring to answer this one. Lol
Cheryl McMeekin
Had no idea
Scott Morris
If I had pronounced it correctly in my head I would have gotten it. I guess I'm not hooked on phonics !
mlphilpot
Glad for explicit answer, I was thinking in the sense of adjective of rare collection, rare books.
Alex Markin
Raring to go is quite valid. Rearing to go is less so, unless you are a horse.
thevoyers
Carroll Price, as in ready able and raring to go!
Carroll Price
It's actually rearing to go (in reference to horses rearing to go) not raring which is non- sensical.
jack patti go
Ijust remembered the old saying, ready and raring to go!
Isabel Laing
Got it but I don't think I've ever seen it written down.
Janet Graham
Peter Robertson, I have never seen it spelled "rearing" in this context.