Meaning & use

Agee

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Off to one side; askew or crooked (chiefly dialectal).

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The old gate hung agee on its rusted hinges.

She noticed his hat was sitting agee after the windy walk home.

A note on using this word

Agee, sometimes spelled 'ajee,' is a dialectal term especially common in Scottish and northern English speech.

Words with a similar meaning

askewcrookedajar

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Words with an opposite meaning

straightaligned

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