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screwy, a.|ˈskruːɪ|
[f. screw n.1 and v. + -y1.]
1. Slightly ‘screwed’ or tipsy.
1820T. Creevey in C. Papers (1904) I. 339, I..drank an extra bottle..: not that I was the least screwy, but [etc.]. 1855Thackeray Newcomes xlvii, Blest if I did'nt nearly drive her into a wegetable cart. I was so uncommon scruey!
2. Of a person: Given to screwing, mean, stingy.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 295/1 Mechanics are capital customers..; they're not so screwy. 1861J. Pycroft Agony Point xliii. (1862) 367 Whereas before we never knew what we could afford..and I used to feel a very unpleasant ‘screwy’ sensation from one year's end to the other. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. xxx, He was so hard upon 'em, and that screwy, never a drop of milk or a fagot to give 'em. 1887Blackmore Springhaven II. xx. 287 To a scrimpy and screwy man..such a position would have done a deal of harm.
3. Of a horse: That is ‘a screw’; unsound.
1852Smedley L. Arundel xxiii, It's like turning a screwy horse out to grass. 1899Baring-Gould Book of West I. vii. 106 Two likely-looking hunters, perhaps a little screwy, were brought round.
4. Of a track: That winds about.
1891Atkinson Last of Giant Killers 15 A jaggy, steep, screwy little trackway.
5. slang (orig. U.S.). Mad, crazy; eccentric; foolish; ridiculous.
1887Lantern (New Orleans) 8 Oct. 3/3 Do, now, please to stop them notes which are so full of screwy talk. They make me tired. 1930D. Runyon in Collier's 22 Mar. 54/2 ‘I am wondering how much you will take to hold still and let me shoot you, Jack?’ ‘Why,’ Handsome Jack says, very much astonished, ‘you must be screwy.’ 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 163 They like the little pattering feet about the house—I know it sounds screwy but it's the truth. 1948M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xiii. 166 We feel our clients are screwy but not bloodstained. 1959‘J. Bell’ Easy Prey viii. 87, I think the whole idea is screwy... I can't see her risking her own life to save a murderess. 1966R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experiment 42 Sheila was Tom's date and I had Tom's sister, Ruth, for a date. Sound screwy? 1978J. Wainwright Jury People liv. 199 The prison psychiatrist..can be told crap. He'll believe it... If anybody's screwy, it's him. |