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skew-whiffy

skew-whiffy adjective: somewhat skew-whiff; leaning or tilted.

Adjective

skew-whiffy (comparative more skew-whiffy, superlative most skew-whiffy)

  1. Somewhat skew-whiff; leaning or tilted.
    • She was followed by two more jam tarts which exploded terribly on her high hat, and knocked in all skew-whiffy.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 55

Forms of skew-whiffy

comparativemore skew-whiffy
superlativemost skew-whiffy

Origin of skew-whiffy

From skew-whiff + -y.

Questions about skew-whiffy

What does skew-whiffy mean?
Skew-whiffy means somewhat skew-whiff; leaning or tilted.
What part of speech is skew-whiffy?
Skew-whiffy is an adjective.

Words near skew-whiffy in the dictionary

  1. skew-symmetric matrixes
  2. skew-symmetry
  3. skew-T log-P diagram
  4. skew-T log-P diagrams
  5. skew-whiff
  6. skew-whiffy
  7. skew-whift
  8. skew-wiff
  9. skew-wift
  10. skewable
  11. skewampus

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