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Aggie, n.2 and a. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
Brit. |ˈagi|, U.S. |ˈægi|
Forms: 18 Aggy, 19– Aggie, 19– aggie
[‹ ag n. + -y suffix6.]
A. n.
1. An agriculturalist, spec. a student at an agricultural college. Freq.: a member of a sports team from such a college; (in pl., with capital initial) the team itself.
1871N.Y. Times 22 July 5/3 Surprised and frantic yells... ‘Go it Aggys.’ 1902Chicago Record-Herald 28 Sept. 3/4 (headline) Swamp Michigan ‘Aggies’. 1925S. Lewis Arrowsmith iii. 28 With booming decorum he presided at class meetings (indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the ‘aggies’ use the North Side Tennis Courts). 1976Business Week 27 Sept. 40 n/3 A study by the National Academy of Sciences is expected to advise that improved food production techniques should carry a higher priority in federal research allocations. To the aggies, that would come as good news. 2001Chicago Tribune 27 Aug. i. 8/3 At Texas A & M, Clark puts the Aggies through ‘jingle-jangle’ drills. Players sprint from the goal line [etc.].
2. An agricultural institution, esp. a college.
1920Boston Evening Transcript 2 Oct. iv. 1/1 The man who thinks that the working farmer isn't interested in what Aggie does is mistaken. 1945Gunnison (Colorado) News-Champion 22 Nov. 8/4 He will be at the home of his parents..until the beginning of the winter semester, when he will enrol at Colorado Aggies. 1977Economist 9 Apr. 98/1 Islington..has one white..elephant, the Royal Agricultural Hall... The council bought the ‘Aggie’ in March, 1976. 1989Boston Globe 25 June 44/1 When I went to Aggie, I found something I enjoyed. It was the first time I excelled at anything.
B. adj. Of or relating to agriculture or an agricultural college, department, student, etc.; agricultural.
1946Amer. Speech 21 29 Students at A. and M...belong to one ‘fraternity’—the Aggie fraternity... This vocabulary is part and parcel of the Aggie spirit, the Aggie traditions, and the Aggie fraternity. 1977Washington Post 1 Aug. a6/2 Almost every ag school..has taken part in the new aggie boom. 1984J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists ii. 14 He had enrolled in the Department of Agriculture... The only problem was that being an aggie major was harder than he expected. 1998Vanity Fair Mar. 174 Boggs fancies himself a good old boy from the bayou, tells Boudreaux jokes (which are to Louisiana what Aggie jokes are to Texas) in a hopeless Cajun accent. |