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skewjawed

adj
/ˈskju.d͡ʒɑd/US

Etymology

From skew + jawed.

  1. derived from *ga(v)ota✻ — “cheek”
  2. derived from joe — “cheek; jaw”
  3. derived from jowe
  4. inherited from jowe — “jaw; sides of the lower face”
  5. suffixed as jawed — “jaw + ed”
  6. formed as skewjawed — “skew + jawed”

Definitions

  1. Crooked, misaligned, or disorganized.

    • Though, after all, it's kinder skewjawed. I'd like tu see the closet It's only shelves, hey?
    • 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.
    • The sudden cold skewjawed the strings. He tuned three times before the strings quit warping off.

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