agee

See also: âgée

English

Alternative forms

• ajee (Scotland)

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.

Adverb

agee (comparative more agee, superlative most agee)

1. (Scotland, dialect, 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.