Fred Basset by Alex Graham for March 12, 2013

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    tjextejt  over 11 years ago

    Will one of the British fans please translate “skewwhiff” into American?

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    alondra  over 11 years ago

    Turned or twisted toward one side.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/skew-whiff

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    Momothor14  over 11 years ago

    A bit askew!

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    JudeDog  over 11 years ago

    “A whiff is a puff of wind, so “skew-whiff” probably originally meant “blown askew or awry by the wind.”

    Where it comes from is anyone’s guess. The earliest quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the “Scots Magazine” of July 1754. Apparently it’s been listed in dialect dictionaries for Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Rochdale and the Shetlands."

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    bresnik415  over 11 years ago

    You and me both, Fred… you and me both!

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    AmyGrantfan51774  over 11 years ago

    Fred’s sick huh ???!!!…poor Fred

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    kaecispopX  over 11 years ago

    I guess it is related to the Southern country expression of “catiwampered”.

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    robert423elliott  10 months ago

    kaecispopX……….that would be “catywampus”! Take it from a southerner~!

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