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.

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

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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.

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

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