英语词汇“skew-ways”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

skew-ways adv. and adj. colloquial and regional (now chiefly Irish English). (a) adv. at an angle; slantingly, askew; askance, obliquely (cf. skew-wise at Compounds 2a); (b) adj. crooked, slanting; sideways, oblique.

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1840 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 280/1 By my sowl, counsellor, I don't think you'd look skew-ways (askew) at it yourself.

1876 Staffs. Sentinel 23 Sept. Colonel Rich believes the accident was caused by the signalman having placed the signal-lamp skew-ways on the edge of the socket.

1908 D. Conyers Three Girls & Hermit xii. 219 Isn't Clara misfortunate, Captain, the way she sits skew ways on a horse?

1920 C. M. A. Peake Eli of Downs xxxvii. 351 A gaunt white cross..with a skew-ways wreath of marble passion flowers.

1989 B. Roche Handful of Stars in Wexford Trilogy (1992) 43 Eight hefty chaps all sleepin' in the one room. Upside down and sideways and skewways and I don't know what the hell way we slept at all.

2001 Irish Times 2 May (The Ticket section) 3/1 It's taking a skew-ways look at the inanity of media analysis.

2014 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 Jan. (You section) 5 I have to operate and insert metal pins and plates. Tomorrow morning..before the bones start to heal skew-ways by themselves.

单词	skew-ways
释义	> as lemmas skew-ways skew-ways adv. and adj. colloquial and regional (now chiefly Irish English). (a) adv. at an angle; slantingly, askew; askance, obliquely (cf. skew-wise at Compounds 2a); (b) adj. crooked, slanting; sideways, oblique. ΚΠ 1840 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 280/1 By my sowl, counsellor, I don't think you'd look skew-ways (askew) at it yourself. 1876 Staffs. Sentinel 23 Sept. Colonel Rich believes the accident was caused by the signalman having placed the signal-lamp skew-ways on the edge of the socket. 1908 D. Conyers Three Girls & Hermit xii. 219 Isn't Clara misfortunate, Captain, the way she sits skew ways on a horse? 1920 C. M. A. Peake Eli of Downs xxxvii. 351 A gaunt white cross..with a skew-ways wreath of marble passion flowers. 1989 B. Roche Handful of Stars in Wexford Trilogy (1992) 43 Eight hefty chaps all sleepin' in the one room. Upside down and sideways and skewways and I don't know what the hell way we slept at all. 2001 Irish Times 2 May (The Ticket section) 3/1 It's taking a skew-ways look at the inanity of media analysis. 2014 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 Jan. (You section) 5 I have to operate and insert metal pins and plates. Tomorrow morning..before the bones start to heal skew-ways by themselves. extracted from skewadj.adv. < as lemmas
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