aglee
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editAdverb
editaglee (comparative more aglee, superlative most aglee)
- Alternative spelling of agley
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editaglee (not comparable)
- Awry, wrong; not as planned.
- 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page iv. 36:
- And, at the moment of joining the car at the place appointed, a conviction seized me that my well-laid schemes had gone "a-gley".
- asquint, obliquely, off the straight
- irregular, of error, of moral obliquity
References
edit- “aglee, adv., adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.