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Word entry · 6 letters

skewer

Best crossword clue

"Kebab stick"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈskjuː.ə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eekrswStarts with SEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. drive a skewer through

Word origin

From Middle English skeuier, skuer, likely a variant of Middle English *skever, *skiver (compare Modern English skiver), probably of North Germanic origin, compare Icelandic skífa (“to slice”), Norwegian skive, Swedish skiva, Swedish skifer (“a slate”).

Used in a sentence

  • Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.
  • A journalist outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday displaying one of the many tabloid covers skewering Mr. Johnson.
  • As resident jester at the maverick journalism outlet The Free Press, Nellie Bowles scours the news for the absurd and hypocritical, and then skewers the best of the worst in her column, TGIF.

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