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skewjawed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈskju.d͡ʒɑd/ (US)

Etymology

From skew + jawed.

Meanings

1. Crooked, misaligned, or disorganized.
   • Their thicknesses vary wildly; splotches hover over skewjawed jabs. 2016, Barbara Hurd, Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-heard Melodies, page 29:
   • The sudden cold skewjawed the strings. He tuned three times before the strings quit warping off. 2012, Peter Bowen, Specimen Song:
   • Though, after all, it's kinder skewjawed. I'd like tu see the closet It's only shelves, hey? 1877, Mary Kyle Dallas, The Grinder Papers, page 130:
   • Thinking that something about those stories I used to carry around in my pocket when I was a kid, reading them to shreds, must have been a little skewjawed. 1952, Zoe Lund Schiller, A Candle for a Star, page 209:

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