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Date: 1700-1800
Origin: skew

skew-whiff

 adjective
     
skew-whiff [not before noun] British English spoken informal
not straight [= crooked]:
The top of the bookcase is skew-whiff.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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