skewjawed
adjUS /ˈskju.d͡ʒɑd/
Etymology From skew + jawed.
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Crooked, misaligned, or disorganized.
- 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:
2 more examples
- The sudden cold skewjawed the strings. He tuned three times before the strings quit warping off.2012, Peter Bowen, Specimen Song:
- Their thicknesses vary wildly; splotches hover over skewjawed jabs.2016, Barbara Hurd, Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-heard Melodies, page 29: