Word of the Day for Friday, April 6, 2012
agley \uh-GLEE\, adjective:
Off the right line; awry; wrong.
Reasoning closely, I deduced that her interview with LP Runkle must have gone awry or, as I much prefer to put it, agley.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged, Jeeves
This had been one of those agley days.
-- Alisa Craig, The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain
Agley comes from the Middle English word glien meaning "a squint," as in "to look at sideways."
關右行;出差錯;錯了。
推理緊密,我推測,她用LP朗克爾採訪必須出了錯,或者作為我更喜歡把它,agley。
- 體育G.伍德豪斯,非常感謝,佔道
這已經這些agley天。
- 阿利薩克雷格,蠐螬和Stakers移動山
agley來“看”在側身從中古英語單詞glien意思是“斜視”,如
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