agee

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[ uh-jee ]

/ əˈdʒi /

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adverb British Dialect.

to one side; awry.

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Origin of agee

First recorded in 1790–1800; a-¹ + gee¹

Words nearby agee

agcy., age, age allowance, Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety, aged, agee, Agee, James, age group, age hardening, ageing, ageism

Other definitions for agee (2 of 2)

Agee

[ ey-jee ]

/ ˈeɪ dʒi /

noun

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

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It was edited and published two years later, and won Agee a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1958.
15 Posthumous Books, From Kafka to Stieg Larsson||August 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A Death in the Family by James Agee When Agee died from a heart attack in 1955, the novel was not quite finished.
15 Posthumous Books, From Kafka to Stieg Larsson||August 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Maybe a gentler way to say the same thing is that Agee fails almost completely as a conventional magazine writer.
Revisiting James Agee: Discovering the Original ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’|Malcolm Jones|June 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Coincidentally, Christenberry was born the same year Agee and Evans made their trip to Alabama.
Revisiting James Agee: Discovering the Original ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’|Malcolm Jones|June 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Cotton Tenants may be no masterpiece, but it is an invaluable addition to the Agee shelf.
Revisiting James Agee: Discovering the Original ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’|Malcolm Jones|June 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Il me faut dire que, vraiment, Madame Ralston parait aussi agee quelle lest!
Nothing But the Truth|Frederic S. Isham
“The best laid schemes of mice and men oft gang agee;” and so it was with the Belgian importations.
Gunnery in 1858|William Greener
Prof. Alva Agee insists that "The country church does not serve the community's needs as the community sees those needs."
The Evolution of the Country Community|Warren H. Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for agee (1 of 2)

agee

ajee

Scot and English dialect

adjective

awry, crooked, or ajar

adverb

awry; at an angle

Word Origin for agee

C19: a- ² + gee 1

British Dictionary definitions for agee (2 of 2)

Agee

/ (ˈeɪdʒiː) /

noun

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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agee

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