agee

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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)

  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.

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