aggy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a shortening of aggressive, aggravating, or aggravated combined with -y.

Adjective[edit]

aggy (comparative more aggy, superlative most aggy)

  1. (cheifly African-American Vernacular and UK slang) Aggravating; annoying, irritating, obnoxious.
    • 2015 January 7, Ella Alexander, “GLAMOUR debates: Justin Bieber x Calvin Klein pics”, in Glamour UK:
      But whatever you think of Bieber, the adverts are questionable for reasons other than the singer's reputation for being an aggy teenager with an unfortunate tendency to offend and irritate.
    • 2018 November 11, Leigh Sanders, “The Prodigy, Arena Birmingham – review and pictures”, in Express & Star:
      These encapsulate the trio at their modern finest, vocalist Maxim stalking mercilessly while Keith Flint plays the aggy child antagonizing everyone.
    • 2016, Juannikka Callaway, My Life: My Decisions[1], unnumbered page:
      “Girl asap I need to get away from Tekey. Before I spit on him he's so aggy lil jealous ass."
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggy.
  2. (cheifly African-American Vernacular and UK slang) Aggravated; aggressive, angry.
    • 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.
    • 2010, Andrew Rice, "The Devil Inside", XLR8R, November/December 2010, page 50:
      So he responded with two oversized hits: "Cock Back," which he calls "the aggiest gun tune ever," and "So Sure," a remarkably relaxed and tender tune []
    • 2015, Alex B Rowland, “Roxanne Farahmand”, in Re-bel Magazine[2], page 50:
      I hated curriculum, I hated my tutors, I hated the people. I came to my final year and I realized like, wait... why am I getting so aggy about all this?
    • 2018, Tiffany Bolado, The Legacy of Misperception[3], page 102:
      Ring, ring, rin-
      "What!"
      "Nice to hear from you too, Spect. Why are you so aggy?"
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggy.