agin

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   a dialect spelling of again

   He said he would try the difficult crossing agin at dawn.

2. 2
   prep

   a dialect spelling of against, meaning opposed to or in contact with

   The old farmer declared that he was agin the proposed law.

A Scots and regional English form of again and against. The two modern standard words were historically related, which helps explain why the same dialect spelling can represent either meaning.

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