Complete Definition of "skew-whiff"

English
Adjective
skew-whiff (or skew whiff)
#(British and Australian) askew
#* I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me
Quotations
2005 : He wasn't wearing shoes or a jacket and tie, and his front stud was undone, so that the white collar stood up skew-whiff. - w:Alan Hollinghurst|Alan Hollinghurst, w:The Line of Beauty|The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 401)

Related terms
squiffy

vi:skew-whiff

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