aglee

English

Adverb

aglee (comparative more aglee, superlative most aglee)

1. Alternative spelling of agley

Anagrams

• Aegle, Eagle, eagle

Scots

Alternative forms

• agley, a-gley, a-glee

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

References

• “aglee, adv., adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.