English citations of aggy

Adjective: "(UK, AAVE, slang) aggravating; annoying, irritating, obnoxious" edit

  • 2013, "2014 in film preview: science-fiction", The Guardian, 23 December 2013:
    Kate Winslet pops up as Jeanine Matthews, the aggy bossy boots on hand to keep the population down.
  • 2015, Ella Alexander, "GLAMOUR debates: Justin Bieber x Calvin Klein pics", Glamour UK, 7 January 2015:
    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.
  • 2016, Bianca, Fallin' for the Enemy: A Love That Wasn't Supposed to Be, unnumbered page:
    "Lose me to what, Miles? Why she so paranoid? It's so aggy that she is like that."
  • 2016, Juannikka Callaway, My Life: My Decisions, unnumbered page:
    “Girl asap I need to get away from Tekey. Before I spit on him he's so aggy lil jealous ass."
  • 2018, Leigh Sanders, "The Prodigy, Arena Birmingham – review and pictures", Express & Star, 11 November 2018:
    These encapsulate the trio at their modern finest, vocalist Maxim stalking mercilessly while Keith Flint plays the aggy child antagonizing everyone.
  • 2021, Tami Charles, Muted, unnumbered page:
    Shak: Did you even read what I wrote?
    Me: I said what I said.
    Dali: PeriodT!
    Shak: Grrrrr ... y'all so aggy! 'Specially you, SAY SAY! lol
  • 2021, Jennifer De Leon, Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, page 5:
    From the corner of my eye I could see Chris R. wagging his finger in the air. Oh, please. He was so aggy. And his hair looked like Justin Bieber's.

Adjective: "(UK, AAVE, slang) aggravated; aggressive, angry" edit

  • 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 []
  • 2011, "Fresh rhymes from the cities of the rap nation", Independent, 18 March 2011:
    Over a thundering dubstep backdrop, Bang On breathlessly references terrorism, Tasers and bizzies (Police), handling the "aggy" bass ruckus with aplomb.
  • 2012, Sam Marriott, "Professor Green", The Trinity Ball Guide, page 14:
    Immediately it was evident that Professor Green has struck a balance between the 'aggy yoot' he once embodied way back when, whose prevalence is marked in tracks like "Upper Clapton Dance", an ode to life in the East End where 'all these cats looking to lash on your goodies' and the eloquent young man who broke away from the throes through a couple of things, []
  • 2015, Richard Bramwell, UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City: The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes, Routledge (→ISBN), quoting Reain:
    This sense of Reain's neologism is combined with another, which he considers to be 'a bit more aggy: "Right I'm pissing down on people". And that's a bit more where the battle and rugged element comes into my style.'
  • 2015, Alex B Rowland, "Roxanne Farahmand", Re-bel Magazine, 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?
  • 2017, Brittany Howard, Sabotage, unnumbered page:
    Chris asked me to go to the movies with him tonight, you know how long I've been waiting on this day. Should I go? India asked.
    If you want, slamming her locker.
    Are you on your period or something, why you seeming so aggy today?
  • 2018, Tiffany Bolado, The Legacy of Misperception, page 102:
    Ring, ring, rin-
    "What!"
    "Nice to hear from you too, Spect. Why are you so aggy?"
  • 2018, Graham Masterson, The Children God Forgot, unnumbered page:
    'Man don't know, blud. Man wanted to teach that paigon a lesson, like, but man didn't think about him actually being dead, like.'
    'You didn't think that if you stabbed him eleven times with an eight-inch kitchen knife there was more than a remote possibility he might snuff it?'
    'Man was so aggy, man didn't think about that. []
  • 2018, Natalie Mitchell, When They Go Low, in National Theatre Connections 2018, page 378:
    Scott I'll shut you up with my fist in your mouth in a minute. This is all I need.
    Caleb Why you getting so aggy?

Adjective: "(UK, slang) agitated; anxious, nervous" edit

  • 2018, J. C. Lewin, All Your Fault, unnumbered page:
    Rebecca cleared her throat. "One last question, Poppy. Did you ever get the feeling that Teigan was scared of 'the guys?'"
    Poppy pulled a face, as if surprised by this question. "I dunno ..." she said, fiddling again with the dangly half heart of the bracelet. "She'd been a bit more aggy, I guess."
    "Aggy?" Clark frowned, unsure what this meant.
    "It's what the kids called 'agitated' these days," said Jo, her voice softer now.

Unclear (either "aggravating," "aggravated," or "agitated") edit

books:
  • 2018, Nina de la Mer, Layla, unnumbered page:
    On the one hand theme nights are great, cos you can have a 'good night', i.e. make pots of money and let your hair down a bit. But on the other – fancy dress? There's nothing what makes you more aggy than seeing a group of men going slack-jawed and wet-lipped over you and the girls 'on parade.' Personally you can't be doing with all that fantasy stuff, so your usual night costume is... well, a bit lame.
  • 2018, Sol, Diary of the Plug's Daughter 3, unnumbered page:
    "Man, fuck you! How you gon' tell me how I feel?"
    She sucked her teeth. "Whateva."
    "Ain't no mafuckin whateva! I got shot!"
    "Okay nigga! How many times you gonna say it?"
    "Until the shit stops hurting. The fuck?"
    "You're so aggy."
  • 2021, Ciera Frederick, If the Walls Could Talk, page 36:
    I looked out the window and saw Trinity's crazy ass blowing her damn horn to get our attention. This girl crazy. I opened the front door and just looked at the skinny bitch like she was crazy. I knew she read my facial expression by the way she scrunched up her face and rolled her eyes at me.
    “You can be so aggy at times, chick. Zamya, bring your ol' bougie ass downstairs and help me get my bags while you up there looking all crazy and shit, []
  • 2021, Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, Emma Webster, The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume III, 1985-2015: From Live Aid to Live Nation, Routledge (→ISBN):
    They wanted to separate themselves from a council estate scene they considered uneducated, aggy, rough. (Quoted in Wiley 2017: 94)
other:
  • 2012, Semper Azeez-Harris, "October's new music releases", Lime, October 2012, page 19:
    Hear Me (the second single) is an aggy bit of urban sound firmly placed in that dance sound []

Short for "aggravated (burglary)" edit

  • 2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang, Penguin UK (→ISBN)
    Aggy, or aggravated burglary, is the most violent crime in the burglary genre. It involves forcing your way into premises while they are occupied, ...