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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness; "impatient to begin"; "raring to go" [syn: impatient, raring]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: from present participle of English dialect rare to rear, alteration of English rear Date: 1909 full of enthusiasm or eagerness <ready and raring to go>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (foll. by to + infin.) colloq. enthusiastic, eager (raring to go). Etymology: part. of rare, dial. var. of ROAR or REAR(2)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something. After a good night's sleep, Paul said he was raring to go. PHRASE: V inflects 2. If you are raring to do something or are raring for it, you are very eager to do it or very eager that it should happen. He is raring to charge into the fray and lay down the law... Baker suggested the administration wasn't raring for a fight. ADJ: v-link ADJ, ADJ to-inf, ADJ for n