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agley (uh-GLEE, uh-GLEY, uh-GLEYE) - adj., askew, awry, wrong.
Scots dialect, but generally known through Burns: "the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley." From a-, not + gley, to squint (from Middle English glien, possibly of Scandinavian origin), coined in the 1780s.
---L.
Scots dialect, but generally known through Burns: "the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley." From a-, not + gley, to squint (from Middle English glien, possibly of Scandinavian origin), coined in the 1780s.
---L.
