asker.html - adv. &
predic.adj. --adv.

obliquely; awry. --predic.adj. oblique; awry. [A(2) + SKEW]

asker.html - See: FOR THE ASKING.

asker.html - {v.}, {informal} To make (something bad) likely to happen to you; bring (something bad) upon yourself. * /Charles drives fast on worn-out tires; he is asking for trouble./ * /The workman lost his job, but he asked for it by coming to work drunk several times./ Compare: HAVE IT COMING, SERVE RIGHT, SIGN ONE'S OWN DEATH WARRANT.

asker.html - {v. phr.} To ask permission to marry someone. * /"Sir," John said timidly to Mary's father, "I came to ask for your daughter's hand."/

asker.html - v.
1 tr. call for an answer to or about (ask her about it; ask him his name; ask a question of him).
2 tr. seek to obtain from another person (ask a favour of; ask to be allowed).
3 tr. (usu. foll. by out or over, or to (a function etc.)) invite; request the company of (must ask them over; asked her to dinner).
4 intr. (foll. by for) seek to obtain, meet, or be directed to (ask for a donation; ask for the post office; asking for you).
5 tr. archaic require (a thing).

ask after inquire about (esp. a person). ask for it sl. invite trouble. asking price the price of an object set by the seller. ask me another colloq. I do not know. for the asking (obtainable) for nothing. I ask you! an exclamation of disgust, surprise, etc. if you ask me colloq. in my opinion.

asker n. [OE ascian etc. f. WG]

asker.html - adv.
(also askant) sideways or squinting.

look askance at regard with suspicion or disapproval. [16th c.: orig. unkn.]