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agee

1 American  
[uh-jee] / əˈdʒi /
Or ajee

adverb

British Dialect.

  1. to one side; awry.

Agee 2 American  
[ey-jee] / ˈeɪ dʒi /

noun

  1. James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.

agee 1 British  
/ əˈdʒiː /

adjective

  1. awry, crooked, or ajar

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adverb

  1. awry; at an angle

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Agee 2 British  
/ ˈeɪdʒiː /

noun

  1. James. 1909–55, US novelist, poet, and film critic. His works include the autobiographical novel A Death in the Family (1957)

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Etymology

Origin of agee

First recorded in 1790–1800; a- 1 + gee 1

Example Sentences

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He worked here and he worked there, and turned his hand to this and to that, but it always went agee, and 't was all Yallery Brown's doing.

From More English Fairy Tales by Batten, John Dickson

We must not judge animals in regard to those kinds of behaviour which have been handed over to instinct, and go badly agee when the normal routine is disturbed.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur

Originally one grower would undertake to supply water, and several others would agee to make use of it.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Therfore they bee wyse, that thryue in tyme, and gather too gether necessaries for that agee coomn.

From A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure by Erasmus, Desiderius

But what councel wil you yeoue agee that is in suche great myserie.

From A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure by Erasmus, Desiderius

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