aglee

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English

Adverb

aglee (comparative more aglee, superlative most aglee)

  1. Alternative spelling of agley

Anagrams

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

a- +‎ glee

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈɡliː/, /əˈɡləi/

Adverb

aglee (not comparable)

  1. 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".
  2. asquint, obliquely, off the straight
  3. irregular, of error, of moral obliquity

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