agee

Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.

Adverb

  1. 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:

Origin

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.

Forms

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