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Aglet vs Agley - What's the difference?

aglet | agley |

As a noun aglet

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As an adverb agley is

wrong in the sense of awry, askew, amiss, or distorted.

As an adjective agley is

wrong; askew.

aglet

English

Alternative forms

* aiglet

Noun

(en noun)
  • The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying.
  • A catkin.

    • agley

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gley

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) Wrong in the sense of awry, askew, amiss, or distorted.
  • * 1932 , Rosewell Page, The Iliads of the South: an epic of the War Between the States, Garrett and Massie, p. 165:
    • X tells of cavalry; of Sheridan, Hampton and Fitz Lee;
    Of Early’s Valley march, that Sheridan long held agley !
  • *
  • * 2002 , (Diana Gabaldon), The Fiery Cross, p. 29:
    • We meant to sail from Charleston, but things went agley there, and so we’re bound for Portsmouth now, as fast as we can make speed.

    Usage notes

    The word was popularised by (Robert Burns) in his 1785 Scots poems “(To a Mouse)”, in the much-quoted line “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley'”. This line is often quoted, and the word '''agley''' is occasionally used in modern English, primarily in variants of this line, such as “our plans have gone '''agley'''” or “things went ' agley ”.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland) Wrong; askew.
  • *1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘The Great Bear Cult’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 57:
  • *:But though the bear in the picture was a disguised man he appeared so naturally calm, so benignly strong, that beside him Pete […] looked comparatively shifty and agley .

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