| 释义 |
screwmatic, a. and n. colloq.|skruːˈmætɪk|
[A humorous perversion of rheumatic a. and n., after screw n.1 (see sense 13 b).]
A. adj. = rheumatic a. 4 b. rare.
1893P. H. Emerson On Eng. Lagoons 50, I had the screwmatic fever three times.
B. n. pl. = rheumatic n. 1.
1895P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norf. Broadland 396 ‘Wiper's oil’ is a reputed specific for ‘screwmatics’. 1916E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 209 Wet, and rats,..and dirt and screwmaticks. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry iv. 44 Sometimes corruption has been helped by folk etymology, where the speaker supplies an imagined source for the word from what it seems to say; e.g. screwmatics (rheumatism). |