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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.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. -Fran Lebowitz, author (b. 1950)





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