agee

adv

agee

adv

Etymology From 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.

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Scotland, Archaic, Dialectal Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.

  • I wore my hat agee.1800, Alexander Carlyle, Autobiography:
  • A looking-glass that don't make you look as if your face was all agee.1837, Catharine Sedgwick, Live and Let Live:

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