1871 N.Y. Times 22 July 5/3 Surprised and frantic yells... ‘Go it Aggys.’

1902 Chicago Record-Herald 28 Sept. 3/4 (headline) Swamp Michigan ‘Aggies’.

1925 S. Lewis Arrowsmith iii. 28 Indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the ‘aggies’ use the North Side Tennis Courts.

1976 Business Week 27 Sept. 40 n/3 A study..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.

1981 Texas Monthly Jan. 74/2 The Aggie of the jokes is the terminal bumpkin: outclassed in any company, over his head in every situation, blissfully gullible, relentlessly horny.

2001 Chicago 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.].

1920 Boston Evening Transcript 2 Oct. iv. 1/1 The man who thinks that the working farmer isn't interested in what Aggie does is mistaken.

1946 A. E. Stearns Amherst Boyhood 84 Stone had been enrolled at the ‘Aggie’, and rumor had it that he had been ‘fired’.

1977 Economist 9 Apr. 98/1 Islington..has one white..elephant, the Royal Agricultural Hall... The council bought the ‘Aggie’ in March, 1976.

1989 Boston Globe 25 June 44/1 When I went to Aggie, I found something I enjoyed. It was the first time I excelled at anything.

2006 R. E. Torgerson Truman Torgerson ii. 15 Dunn County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, popularly known as ‘Aggie’, was a self-proclaimed high school for farm boys and girls.

1892 Boston Daily Advertiser 15 Jan. 8/7 (heading) Alumni of the ‘aggie’ college told of the fate of American humor in England.

1946 Amer. 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.

1977 Washington Post 1 Aug. a6/2 Almost every ag school..has taken part in the new aggie boom.

1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists ii. 14 Being an aggie major was harder than he expected.

1998 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Mar. 174 Boudreaux jokes..are to Louisiana what Aggie jokes are to Texas.

2007 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 Mar. 12/1 The ‘12th Man’ tradition keeps students on their feet for Aggie games.

1896 F. W. Larcombe in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 25/2 Aggy marbles were known round Hammersmith some years ago.

1922 S. Anderson Winesburg Ohio 234 His eyes were blue with the colorless blueness of the marbles called ‘aggies’ that the boys of Winesburg carried in their pockets.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 June 2/2 Remember the aggies, worth 15 marbles in my day? The boy next door wanted to trade his clearie..for four of my aggies.

1985 R. Bradbury Death is Lonely Business 101 I..stood looking down..at the fabulous aggie-marble display.

2011 P. K. Compton Grass ain't really Blue 26 We dealt mainly with agates, or ‘aggies’, cats eyes, and the occasional steely. Aggies were opaque with colorful swirling bands.