agee or ajee

PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-JEE) 


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.

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