英和和英

語源

From a- +‎ skew.

発音

• enPR: ə-skyo͞oʹ, IPA: /əˈskju/
• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈskjuː/
• 韻: -uː

形容詞

askew

1. Turned or twisted to one side.
   • 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way:

     Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of "Stonewall Jackson’s Way."
     We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o'er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.

2. (figuratively) Untoward, unfavourable.

派生語

副詞

askew (comparative more askew, superlative most askew)

1. Tilted to one side.

   He wore his hat askew

関連する語

• skew-whiff

アナグラム

• wakes, wekas