aggie

• Rhymes: -æɡi

From agate +‎ -ie.

aggie (countable and uncountable, plural aggies)

1. (informal) Marble or a marble made of agate, or one that looks as if it were made of agate.
   • 1950, The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury:

     Mrs. Collins. Never seen so many children out. Snowmen in every yard this year.
     Billy. Look at mine, Mr Willis. Got a baseball for a nose and my best aggies for eyes.
     Mr. Willis. Yeah, marbles are fine—but in my day we used coal.

   • 1999, Abdelkader Benali, Susan Massotty, Wedding by the Sea, page 60:

     Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers.

From agricultural +‎ -ie.

aggie (plural aggies)

1. (US, informal) An agricultural school, such as one of the state land-grant colleges.
2. (US, informal) A student or alumnus of such a school.

aggie (comparative more aggie, superlative most aggie)

1. Alternative form of aggy
   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 191:

     I got aggie like a motherfucker.