单词 | screwball |
释义 | screwballn.adj. A. n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 1866 ‘Capt. R. Crawley’ Cricket 35 A ‘screw’ ball, which in slow bowling would describe the arc of a circle from the pitch to the wicket, becomes in fast bowling a sharp angle. 1866 ‘Capt. R. Crawley’ Cricket 36 The dotted line shows the direction of a slow screw ball screwing in from the leg. b. Baseball. A pitch in which the ball is thrown with reverse spin in order to make it curve towards the side from which it was thrown, i.e. in the opposite direction to that of a normal curveball (see curveball n. 1). Also occasionally figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch change of pace1650 slow ball1838 passed ball1860 ball1863 rib roaster1864 called ball1865 low ball1866 wild pitch1867 curveball1875 short pitch1877 grass cutter1879 fastball1883 downshoot1886 lob ball1888 pitchout1903 bean ballc1905 spitball1905 screwball1908 spitter1908 sinker ball1910 fallaway1912 meatball1912 fireball1913 roundhouse1913 forkball1923 sinker1926 knuckle ball1927 knuckler1928 gofer1932 slider1936 sailer1937 junk1941 change up1942 eephus1943 junkball1944 split-finger(ed) fastball1980 change1982 1908 Atlantic (Iowa) Evening News 14 Apr. Patten relies on two balls, ‘a spitter’ and a ‘screw ball’. 1933 N.Y. Times 2 Aug. 20/1 Hubbell pitched his customary shrewd game for five innings then his deceptive screw ball lost its baffling influence. 1971 L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports i. 15 Baseball men use the term screwball for either type of reverse curve, but the pitch is used primarily by left-handers. 1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) xiv. 364 Most of the relievers were freak-ball pitchers, who threw screwballs or knuckle balls..or palmballs. 1995 Daily Globe (Ironwood, Mich.) 23 Aug. 6/2 ‘They really threw us a screwball on this baby,’ Urban said. 2003 M. Lewis Moneyball vii. 159 Screwball after screwball dives over the inside part of the plate. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). A crazy or eccentric person; a madman; an oddball. Frequently as a mild term of abuse. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person fantastical1589 fantastic1598 earwig brain1599 extravagant1627 fanatic1644 energumen1660 original1675 toy-pate1702 gig1777 quiz1780 quoz?1780 rum touch1800 crotcheteer1815 pistol1828 eccentric1832 case1833 originalist1835 cure1856 crotchet-monger1874 curiosity1874 crank1881 crackpot1883 faddist1883 schwärmer1884 hard case1892 finger1899 mad hatter1905 nut1908 numéro1924 screwball1933 wack1938 fruitcake1942 odd bod1942 oddball1943 ghoster1953 raver1959 kook1960 flake1968 woo-woo1972 zonky1972 wacko1977 headbanger1981 1933 Los Angeles Times 22 Jan. e2/6 Harry Cooper..tries impossible shots even if good sense dictates otherwise. If he was a fighter they'd call him a screwball. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime viii. 115 You are going to Blandings Castle now, no doubt, to inspect some well-connected screwball? 1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday xxv. 163 He was a scientist, but whether brilliant or a screwball nobody ever knew. 1978 S. Brill Teamsters v. 186 The word one got on Carey at Teamsters headquarters..was that he was a ‘screwball’, ‘a weirdo’, a ‘strange guy’, or..‘a naïve kid’. 1986 M. Forrester Out of Char. (1987) xi. 99 In those days I was so naïve and brash that he thought I was some kind of screwball. 2015 J. Timmerman Fatal Choice v. 47 It's not my first time in a church, screwball. You make it sound like some exotic adventure. 3. U.S. slang. Fast jazz improvisation; unrestrained swing (swing n.2 10b). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > improvisation or arrangement screwball1936 head arrangement1944 1936 Delineator Nov. 10/2 Barrel-house, gut-bucket, screw-ball, Dixieland..the cats are lickin' their chops, they're friskin' their whiskers. 1938 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Sept. 188/3 It may start ‘barrelhouse’ (free improvisation), blending into ‘screwball’ (fast free improvisation). 1947 R. P. Dodge in A. McCarthy Jazzbook 64 When inspiration leaves the player..he becomes what is known as a screw-ball player. I must say that I prefer the jump style to the screw-ball style. 4. Originally U.S. Film. A genre of comedy film first produced in the United States in the 1930s, with a fast-moving, irreverent style, typically featuring eccentric characters or farcical situations and often having a romantic storyline. Also: a film of this genre. Cf. screwball comedy n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1974 S. H. Scheuer Movie Bk. 190 Perhaps James Whale's Remember Last Night? (1935) first brings together all of the elements of the classic screwball comedy... The pace and movement are pure screwball. 1991 Premiere Oct. 20/2 What made screwballs so peculiarly volatile and also uniquely American was the yoking together of opposite moods. 1995 New Yorker 22 May 96/3 ‘While You Were Sleeping’..works. Its charm is entirely reactionary—none of the swiping, emotionally radical edge that we are tested by in screwball. 2012 T. C. Renzi Screwball Comedy & Film Noir iii. 79 Screwball is comedy that synthesizes facets of other genres, including romantic comedy, farce,..and even drama. 2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 11 Sept. c11/4 Ms. Headland has a concept for a latter-day screwball comedy... In the 1930s and '40s screwballs.., men and women trade insults and seductive looks. 5. U.S. With the. Crazy or eccentric ideas collectively. rare. ΚΠ 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 6 Mar. 11/3 You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. B. adj. Originally U.S. 1. colloquial. Crazy, insane; eccentric. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky fantastical1531 odd1577 eccentric1685 fanaticized1827 cranky1850 bee-bonneted1856 cornery1887 screwy1887 kinky1889 crankish1892 ratty1895 batchy1898 batsc1901 batty1903 potty1920 offbeat1922 off-centre1930 wacky1935 screwball1936 up the creek1941 oddball1945 wackadoo1958 kooky1959 wiggy1963 flaky1964 nutball1968 woo-woo1971 wacko1977 off-kilter1985 wackadoodle1993 fantastic- 1936 Metronome Feb. 21/4 Screw-ball, crazy without knowing. 1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) ii. i. 53 I think he is screwball. 1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle iii. i. 173 ‘It must have done you a lot of good.’ ‘If I get home in one piece from this screwball deal, I'll know it did.’ 1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle ii. 34 The only whites..are two old guys who run the place—a couple of screwball recluses. 1996 A. Ghosh Calcutta Chromosome (1997) xi. 70 He had this screwball theory that the malaria bug was transmitted from mosquito to man via drinking water. 2015 R. Muncy Relentless Reformer iv. 225 Josephine Roche denounced ‘Commies’, screwball liberals, and Henry Wallace's Progressive Party. 2. attributive. Film. Of a comedy or genre: having a fast-moving, irreverent style, typically featuring eccentric characters or farcical situations and often having a romantic storyline. Also: of or characteristic of a screwball comedy (see screwball comedy n. (a) at Compounds 2).Recorded first in screwball comedy n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types costumed1851 foreign language1904 first run1910 Keystone1912 photodramatic1914 serial1915 coming of age1919 edge-of-your-seat1922 psychodramatic1927 omnibus1928 straight1936 low-budget1937 no-budget1937 screwball1937 Ealing1939 blockbusting1943 private eye1946 film noir1952 white telephone1952 portmanteau1953 uncut1953 anthology1955 three-D1955 Hammer1958 noir1958 co-production1959 kitchen sink1959 kidult1960 docudrama1961 cinéma vérité1963 maudit1963 filmi1965 indie1968 triple-X1969 XXX1969 drama-documentary1970 cheapie1973 gross-out1973 high concept1973 chopsocky1974 hard R1974 buddy movie1975 sci-fi1977 mondo1979 hack-and-slash1981 microbudget1981 hack-and-slay1982 slice-and-dice1982 fly on the wall1983 psychotronic1983 noirish1985 Mad Max1986 stoner1987 bonkbusting1993 straight to DVD1997 1937 Nevada State Jrnl 19 Mar. 5/1 The screwball comedy ‘Topper.’ 1939 L. Jacobs Rise of Amer. Film 536 Among the women Carole Lombard is the most outstanding in her ‘screw-ball’ activity. 1974 S. H. Scheuer Movie Bk. 190 [Cary] Grant developed the perfect screwball hero. 1978 Time 3 July 44/2 Heaven Can Wait is a light, screwball fantasy about a Los Angeles Rams quarterback (Beatty) who dies and comes back to life as an eccentric millionaire. 1991 Brandon (Manitoba) Sunday 21 July 13/5 Travolta and Alley never achieve a good screwball romantic relationship in a script that resorts frequently to potty humour. 2012 Arts & Bk. Rev. (Nexis) 16 Mar. (Films section) 12 Both films have some of the anarchic quality that define the screwball genre. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense A. 1b), as screwball delivery, screwball pitcher, etc. ΚΠ 1922 Boston Sunday Post 2 July 16/4 Tom Zachary, the screw ball southpaw of the National's hurling staff. 1937 Sun (N.Y.) 1 June 24/3 ‘I thought Joe Robinson was mentioned [for the Supreme Court].’ ‘Yes, but it seems the President insists on screwball pitching.’ 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Oct. 12/5 Buxton, a 35-year-old screwball artist, was purchased from Oakland. 1959 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 5 July c1/4 The master of the screwball delivery struck out Ruth, Lou Gehrig..and Joe Cronin. 2015 M. Zachter Gil Hodges vii. 92 The star of the Phillies' bullpen was a right-handed screwball pitcher. C2. screwball comedy n. originally U.S. Film (a) a comedy film of a type first produced in the United States in the 1930s, with a fast-moving, irreverent style, typically featuring eccentric characters or farcical situations and often having a romantic storyline; (b) such films as a genre. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1937 Nevada State Jrnl 19 Mar. 5/1 The screwball comedy ‘Topper.’ 1938 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 27 Aug. 1/6 ‘Screwball’ comedy is back on the shelf; the funny papers can have it exclusively again. 1959 Times 6 Apr. 3/4 The situation, that of girl thwarted at every turn in her moneyless search for somewhere to sleep, suggests a 1930s screwball comedy. 1995 Dazed & Confused No. 14. 17 I'm a big fan of screwball comedy but that's too dated, too innocent now. 2000 P. Moore Full Montezuma (2001) xx. 343 We had been forced to suffer through Six Days, Seven Nights, a very bad attempt at a screwball comedy. Derivatives ˈscrewballism n. originally U.S. (a) crazy or eccentric behaviour; lunacy (cf. sense B. 1); (b) Film the screwball style of comedy (see sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema > movements or genres neo-realism1908 screwballism1942 Free Cinema1956 nouvelle vague1959 New Wave1960 cinéma vérité1961 Cinema Novo1963 romcom1963 ciné verité1965 teensploitation1983 1942 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 Apr. There are so many good isms that the one who would be all-inclusive in his denunciations may be guilty of screwballism. 1974 S. H. Scheuer Movie Bk. 190 William Powell playing the servant to a whole wacky family in My Man Godfrey,..or Claudette Colbert smiling her way through Midnight,..immediately come to mind as high points of screwballism. 1987 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 July A retro comedy that combines the screwballism of the thirties with the squeaky-cleanism of the Doris Day of the sixties. 2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 16 Aug. a64 This redheaded pixie..could have dropped straight out of a Woody Allen movie. But there is sadness behind the screwballism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). screwballv. 1. transitive. Baseball. To defeat (a team) by pitching screwballs (screwball n. 1b); to bring (a team) to a particular result, etc., by pitching screwballs. Also occasionally intransitive: to pitch a screwball or screwballs.In figurative context in quot. 1933 in to screwball one's way: to make one's way by pitching screwballs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > pitch to go the route1875 screwball1933 1933 Winnipeg Free Press 5 May 8/3 Vernon Gomez..screw-balled his way to the portals of the hall of fame yesterday. 1937 Washington Court House Rec. Herald 27 Mar. 8/8 Hubbell, who was screwballing in 26-game fashion. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §676/15 Pitch a curve,..put hooks on the ball, screwball. 1945 Montana Standard 26 Sept. 10/1 Nelson Potter screwballed them into a two hit shut-out. 1976 Times-Standard (Eureka, Calif.) 19 June 10/1 Righthander Mike Metz..screwballed the last team he pitched against into submission on a three-hit shutout. 2015 B. Mayer in M. Z. Aaron et al. Who's on First 120/1 Carl Hubbell..didn't win his first game until June 5, screwballing the Pittsburgh Pirates with a one-hitter. 2. intransitive. In extended use: to travel like a screwball, following an unpredictable or swerving course. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > like a baseball delivered with spin screwball1938 1938 Winnipeg Free Press 20 July 3/6 Manitoba's berserk motorists..are still screwballing along the highways utterly oblivious of traffic laws. 1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure iv. 48 Partridges sky-rocketed and screwballed overhead and fled to safety. 2011 G. Files Rope of Thorns xv. 257 An odd updraft caught the Apache mid-fall, twitching him deftly free of gravity's trap—set him screwballing straight for Yiska. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1866v.1933 |
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