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scheef

Pronunciation: /sxeːf/

“scheef” is a Dutch word. Its 3 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. crooked, not level or straight
  2. weird, not right

noun

  1. shive, i.e. fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp

Etymology

From Middle Dutch scheyff, from Proto-West Germanic *skēf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaib, from Proto-Germanic *skaibaz ‘crooked, askew’, from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-. Compare Latin scaevus (“left, clumsy”), Ancient Greek σκαιός (skaiós, “rude; brusque”), Latvian šķìbs (“crooked”). Cognate with German schief, Old English *sc(e)āf (in scāffōt (“splay-footed”)), Swedish skev.

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