another-guess

[ uh-nuhth-er-ges ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. of another kind.

Word History and Origins

Origin of another-guess¹

1615–25; earlier anothergets, another-gates, originally as genitive of phrase another gate another kind ( gate ² ); respelling by association with guess

Example Sentences

Lewes and George Eliot was another-guess sort of treat, and the days devoted to it stand out in high relief in my memory as some of the most memorable in my life.

From Project Gutenberg

In the great Ovid it lies in an inscription: in my next case it is "another-guess" matter.

From Project Gutenberg

It is unnatural that a poet should pay for his own pot of beer; I will drink his tester for him, to save him from such shame; and when his third night comes round, he shall have penniworths for his coin, I promise you.—But here comes another-guess customer.

From Project Gutenberg

It used to go another-guess manner in thy time.

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