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{ "etymology_text": "A deliberately mispronounced respelling of picturesque, for humorous effect.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "picture-skew (not comparable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "picturesque" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1926: Florence Nelson & C F Scheer, Safety education (Education Division, National Safety Council), page 22", "text": "However, in a broad-brimmed hat\nAnd frilly dress, she figured that\nShe looked quite sweet and picture-skew,\nWhen seated in a green canoe." }, { "ref": "1943: James Styles, The Soul of the Universe, and Other Poems (New Method Ptg. Co.), page 12", "text": "This was their first trip on this road.\nThat they were thrilled, their faces showed.\nOne of them oft admired the view,\nExclaiming, “Ain’t that picture-skew”!" }, { "ref": "1945: New statesman: The Week-end Review (Statesman and Nation Publishing), page 31", "text": "Cheap-looking, true — but picture-skew — my Kots will stretch for miles […]" }, { "ref": "1958, George Smith, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 170, numbers 1015-1020, Smith, Elder and co, page 333:", "text": "^({1}) “[…] I thought it was out of date to like things to be picture-skew,” Peter said, […]\n^({2}) Picture-skew; a bit of tout droit; carry on, Jeeves; the horrible puns […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2005, Philip Hart, The Flight of the Mystic Owls, Kessinger Publishing, page 184:", "text": "“[…] We’ll get the elk and the deer and the rocks in our own picture-skew way, won’t we, Ron?”\n“If you mean ‘picturesque’ I’d say that you are quite right. […]”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of picturesque" ], "id": "en-picture-skew-en-adj-7Cjr82DA", "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "picturesque", "picturesque#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(humorous) Alternative form of picturesque" ], "related": [ { "word": "eggcorn" }, { "word": "malapropism" }, { "word": "mondegreen" } ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative", "humorous", "not-comparable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈpɪkt͡ʃəˌskjuː/", "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "picture-skew" }
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