a. arch.; also 7 -ghess, -gess. [a phonetic reduction of anothergets for ANOTHER-GATES: cf. bless- for blets-ien, best for betst, etc. The spelling -guess suggests a wrong derivation.] Of another sort or kind.
1625. Howell, Lett., I. ix. § 4. I wish you anothergets wife then Socrates had. Ibid. (1644), (1726), 90. Algiers is anothergess thing now than she was then.
1690. Shadwell, Amor. Bigot, III. 268. She has made another guess choice.
1690. Dryden, Amphitryon. The truth on’t is, she’s anotherghess Morsel than old Bromia.
1762. Foote, Orators, III. (1767), 61. This is anotherguess matter, because why, the head is concerned.
1837. T. Hook, Jack Brag, 196. He was as they say ‘quite another guess sort of man’ from what he had been.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., IV. 1498. Anotherguess tribunal than ours here.
