Reverse Dictionary: SLANT

SLANT, SLANTED, SLANTING, SLANTINGLY

ADJECTIVES
A-HUH awry, askew, lopsided, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
ALL-A-HUH awry, askew, lopsided, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
ALL-A-ONE-HUH awry, askew, lopsided, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
ALL-OF-A-HUH awry, askew, lopsided, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
ANLIGODLIN of an object: lopsided, askew, aslant …1970 Amer. dial.
ANTIGODLIN lopsided, askew, aslant, crooked …1917 Amer. dial.
ANTIGOGLIN askew, slanting, crooked …1930 Amer. dial.
ANTIGOSLIN lopsided, askew, aslant …1915 Amer. dial.
ANTISIGODLIN lopsided, askew, aslant, crooked …1931 Amer. dial.
• ASLEW aslant … Bk1905 Eng. dial.
AVELONG oblique, slanting …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
BEVEL aslant, not straight …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
BIAS slanting, oblique …1551 obs.
• CATER-DE-FLAMP slanting, not perpendicular …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CATERING slanting, oblique; out of the square …1883 Eng. dial.
DECLIVOUS having a downward inclination; sloping, slanting …1684
EEYAW lopsided, askew, aslant, awry …1975 Amer. dial.
JACK-DEUCE at an angle or slanted …1930s US sl.
RAKING slanting, sloping …1711
SALLYGODLIN lopsided, askew, aslant, out of line …1950 Amer. dial.
SIDELING slanting, sloping, esp. to one side; steep …1789 Amer. dial.
SKEW turned to one side, slanting, squint …1609
SKEW-WHIFF awry, askew; crooked, twisted, aslant …1754 UK sl.
SKIWIFT awry, askew; crooked, aslant …1754 UK sl.
TEELING sloping, leaning, slanting …B1900 Eng. dial.


ADVERBS
AGLEY obliquely, aslant, turned to one side …1843 Sc. & Eng. dial.
AHOO aslant, out of plumb, lopsided, awry …1899 Amer. dial.
ALONG slanting …1746 Eng. dial.
ANTIGOGGLY slantwise, out of plumb …1967 Amer. dial.
ANTIGOGLIN slantwise, diagonally …1905 Amer. dial.
ASHOSH awry, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• ASKLENT aslant … 1872 Eng. dial.
ASLEW aslant, obliquely, awry, askew, diagonally …1873 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• ASLOAP aslant, obliquely 1720 Sc.
ASOSH awry, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• ASQUANCE aslant, askew … 1903 Eng. dial.
ASWAIP aslant, on one side …Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ASWASH awry, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
ASWIR diagonally, aslant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
ASWISH aslant, slantwise …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
EEYAW lopsided, askew, aslant, awry …1975 Amer. dial.
ON A SKEW on the slant, slantwise …1881
ON THE SKEW on the slant, slantwise …1891
SIDE-GODLIN slanting, askew, awry …1966 Amer. dial.
SI-GODLIN slanting, askew, awry …1917 Amer. dial.
SKEEGEE slantwise, diagonally …1916 Amer. dial.
YAW-WAYS slantwise; at an angle …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.


NOUNS
SCLENT; SKLENT a slant or slope; a slanting or sideward movement; a side look, etc. …1768 Sc.
SKEW a slant; a deviation from the straight line; a sideward movement …1688


VERBS
CAST to have an inclination; to incline, to slope, to slant …1599 obs.
LEAN TOWARDS COOPER’S to slant, to tilt, to be out of plumb …1967 Amer. dial.
LEAN TOWARDS FISHER’S to slant, to tilt, to be out of plumb …1957 Amer. dial.
LEAN TOWARDS JONES’S to slant, to tilt, to be out of plumb …1905 Amer. dial.
LEAN TOWARDS PERKINS’S to slant, to tilt, to be out of plumb …1967 Amer. dial.
LEAN TOWARDS SAWYER’S to slant, to tilt, to be out of plumb …1967 Amer. dial.