aggieの意味・使い方・発音

aggie

英美 ['ægi]

aggie (n.1): "college student studying agriculture," by 1880, American English college slang, from agriculture + -ie.
aggie (n.2): type of toy marble, by 1905, American English, colloquial shortening of agate (q.v.).
Excited groups gather about rude circles scratched in the mud, and there is talk of "pureys," and "reals," and "aggies," and "commies," and "fen dubs!" There is a rich click about the bulging pockets of the boys, and every so often in school time something drops on the floor and rolls noisily across the room. When Miss Daniels asks: "Who did that?" the boys all look so astonished. Who did what pray tell? ["McClure's Magazine," May 1905]

1. The Aggie replied，'sir，I believe that would be giddy-up.": この大学生は「先生、気絶したと信じています。」

2.Maybe I will buy a$800 Aggie ring next year when I have money.: 来年お金ができたら、私も800ドルの卒業生の指輪を注文するかもしれません。

3. Aggie was looking at him in such an astonishment that she hardly noticed what he said.: 艾吉おばさんは驚いて彼を見ていたので、彼の言うことに気づかなかった。