agee
See also: âgée
English
Etymology
a- + gee. A preposition of state + gee (“to move to one side”), from gee or jee, a call to a horse to move to one side.
Adverb
agee (comparative more agee, superlative most agee)
- (Scotland, dialectal, archaic) Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
- 1800, Alexander Carlyle, Autobiography
- I wore my hat agee.
- 1837, Catharine Sedgwick, Live and Let Live
- A looking-glass that don't make you look as if your face was all agee.
- 1800, Alexander Carlyle, Autobiography
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