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englanti puhekieltä Wrong in the sense of awry, askew, amiss, or distorted.
1932, http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/page_rosewell.html 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!
(RQ:Wodehouse Offing)
2002, (w), The Fiery Cross, http://books.google.com/books?id=NAHvT4UQjwgC&pg=PA29&dq=agley 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.
puhekieltä wrong Wrong; askew.
1983, (w), ‘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.
asquint; astray, off the straight
1785, (w), “(w)”:
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley

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