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agee

agee adverb: aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.

Adverb

agee (comparative more agee, superlative most agee)

  1. (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

Proper noun capitalized: Agee

Agee (plural Agees)

  1. A surname.

Forms of agee

Adverb
comparativemore agee
superlativemost agee
alternative Scotlandajee
Proper noun
pluralAgees

Origin of agee

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.

Questions about agee

What does agee mean?
Agee means aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
What part of speech is agee?
Agee can be an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near agee in the dictionary

  1. aged R-values
  2. aged up
  3. agedly
  4. agedness
  5. agedre
  6. agee
  7. Agees
  8. ageest
  9. agefright
  10. ageful
  11. agefulness

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