agee or ajee
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adverb: To one side; awry.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Scottish English dialect, from a- (to, toward) + gee (a command to a horse to move to one side). Earliest documented use: before 1805.
USAGE:
“The knaves go all agee when both my lord and myself have our backs turned.”
Charlotte M. Yonge; Grisly Grisell; Macmillan; 1893.
Charlotte M. Yonge; Grisly Grisell; Macmillan; 1893.
