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skewiff

skewiff is the alternative spelling of skew-whiff.

Meaning of skew-whiff

Adjective

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

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) Askew; lopsided, not straight.
    • I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me.
    Synonyms:
    awry, agee

Forms of skewiff

comparativemore skewiff
superlativemost skewiff

Questions about skewiff

What is skewiff the alternative spelling of?
Skewiff is the alternative spelling of skew-whiff.

Words near skewiff in the dictionary

  1. Skewes' numbers
  2. Skeweses
  3. skewest
  4. skewfield
  5. skewfields
  6. skewiff
  7. skewing
  8. skewings
  9. skewjawed
  10. skewly
  11. skewness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skewiff (page history and authors); skew-whiff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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