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skeow-ways

skeow-ways adverb: askew.

Adverb

skeow-ways (comparative more skeow-ways, superlative most skeow-ways)

  1. (Ireland) Askew.
    • Down I flew Skeow ways across the river.1869, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, page 108
    • Horse looking round at it with his plume skeowways.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 97

Forms of skeow-ways

comparativemore skeow-ways
superlativemost skeow-ways

Questions about skeow-ways

What does skeow-ways mean?
Skeow-ways means askew.
What part of speech is skeow-ways?
Skeow-ways is an adverb.

Words near skeow-ways in the dictionary

  1. skenned
  2. skenning
  3. skens
  4. skeo
  5. skeos
  6. skeow-ways
  7. skep
  8. skepful
  9. skepfuls
  10. skepped
  11. skepping

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