Agley

/əˈɡleɪ/ adjective

Awry or crooked; going wrong or amiss.

Scottish variant of 'aglee', from 'a-' + 'glee'. Immortalized by Robert Burns in 1785 in the phrase 'gang aft agley' (often go awry) in his poem 'To a Mouse'.

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