Word of the Week: SKEWWHIFF

[Garritan]

Pingu suggest this Word of the Week: SKEWWHIFF
(It can also appear hyphenated as 'skew-whiff').

Turned or twisted toward one side
"the branches on the christmas album are, as the British say, skew-whiff"

Pingu writes that "Northerners in Britain use it all the time, but I'm beginning to realise, from the strange looks I get, that it's not very common anywhere else".

Thanks Pingu for this week's word.

We have some other words volunteered and feel free to keep those words coming.

Gary

Previous Words of the Week: ALACRITY, BORBORYGMI, RECALCITRANT, TRANSMOGRIFY, BODACIOUS, THAUMATURGICALl, SWIMMINLY, WOOLGATHERING, WINDBROACH, SINECURE, NOMOPHOBIA; GASP, AGOG, BLOVIATE

[Leaf]

I think i recall once seeing Skew-whiff in my alphabet soup.


Ooh i remember now, it wasn't skew-whiff, it was Dave "The Snake" Sabo.

[AlanPerkins]

This word is also used in Australia.

viz "Your clothes are skew-whiff"

I have never seent it written before so never thought about spelling.

[snorlax]

Did I ever askewwiff my clothes are skew-whiff?

...and as long as we're talking about skew-related stuff,

Did I ever askewwiff your distribution is leptokurtic or platykurtic?

That piquant discussion of peakedness piqued my curiosity for a moment or three or four about the mean.

[reberclark]

There once was a young man fron Kent
Whose mind was exceedingly bent.
One day he got scared
And, unless I have erred,
You expected a rhyme here with "skew-whiff."

[snorlax]

There once was a young man fron Kent
Whose mind was exceedingly bent.
One day he got scared
And, unless I have erred,
You expected a rhyme here with "skew-whiff."

Reber's search for a rhyme for "skew-whiff"
caused a fall off the limerick cliff...
In reasonable time,
He discovered no rhyme,
shrugged his shoulders, and said "what's the diff?"

[Styxx]

What are we talking about here, huh? :mad: ~|

[reberclark]

I actually have a copy of the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology which ties "Skew-whiff" with "Skew" which comes from "Eschew." Hence "Askew" which can also be "Skew-whiff."

Not funny, I know. But, there you are. ;)

[reberclark]

Skew Haiku?:

Her coat was skew-whiff.
Her hair was auburn and gold.
A picture for me.