screwedadj.

Brit.

/skruːd/, U.S.

/skrud/

Forms: see screw v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: screw n.¹, -ed suffix²; screw v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < screw n.¹ + -ed suffix², and partly < screw v. + -ed suffix¹.

(a) Having a helical groove or ridge so as to allow attachment to something fitted with a complementary groove or ridge; threaded.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > helical > having helical grooves or ridges

screwed1590

1590 J. Blagrave Baculum Familliare iii. 7 The round or pomell of the ioincte..hauing a screwed pinne of yron throughe the centre with a screwed boxe on the vnder side to fasten or locke fast the staffe.

1629 F. Malthus tr. Treat. Artific. Fire-works 11 Leauing at the one end, as it were a handle, and on the other, a screwed hole; by which meanes the granad may be charged.

1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 150 Let there be a glasse,..having a hole at the bottome, to put a candle in with a screwed socket.

1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions 51 A Key perfectly square, with a Scrue turning within it..and no heavier then the triangle-scrued Key.

1716 E. Halley Lights in Air in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 421 Certain skrewed or striate Particles, adapted to the Pores they are to enter.

1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 120 The common bolt, which receives a screwed nut at the bottom.

1819 T. S. Peckston Theory & Pract. Gas-lighting 299 Service-pipes..are..screwed at one end, and furnished with a screwed socket at the other.

1883 F. Campin Details of Machinery xix. 224 The strength of a bolt or any description of screwed end must be determined from its diameter.

1907 H. A. Bethell Mod. Guns 9 The screwed breech of the gun is cut away to match.

2008 Mech. Syst. & Signal Processing 22 1802 Each tube is fitted with a screwed end connector which, when tightened into the node, also clamps the tube by means of an internal compression fitting.

(b) Of a firearm or its barrel: having a spirally grooved or polygonal bore; rifled. Now historical and rare.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of bore

rifled1619

screwed1657

full bore1666

wreathed1681

smooth-bore1799

small-bore1833

unrifled1851

poly-grooved1858

smooth-bored1859

polygroove1863

cylinder-bored1881

1657 Brief Relation Dangerous Plot in Mercurius Politicus No. 345. 7543 The two persons being apprehended, they were found to have scrued Pistols.

1678 London Gaz. No. 1271/4 A Case of screw'd barril Pistols.

1680 Eng. Mil. Discipl. i. 23 The King commands at present that in every Troop of his Guards be carried eight rifled or screwed Carabins.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 524 Excellent Screw'd Gunns.

1755 H. Rimius tr. N. L. von Zinzendorf in Suppl. to Candid Narr. Rise & Progress Herrnhuters p. xli Persons so described, were as cocksure struck by it, as a screwed gun, fired at two feet distance, hits the mark.

?a1764 W. Rider New Hist. Eng. XLIV. 207 The deponent had often seen Grove and Pickering walk in the park, with screwed pistols.

1898 Notes & Queries 7 May 377/2 Such barrels were then usually called ‘screwed’... Prince Rupert showed his skill as a marksman by hitting twice in succession the vane on St. Mary's, Stafford, at sixty yards with a ‘screwed’ pistol.

1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 270/3 Mr. George quotes the well-known story of Prince Rupert hitting the weathercock on St. Mary's Church, Stafford, with two successive shots from ‘screwed horseman's pistols’.

b. Attached or fixed with an inserted screw or screws, or by means of an integral screw. Formerly also: †inserted or attached by screwing (obsolete). Cf. screw v. 1, 2a, 2d.See also screwed-down adj., screwed-on adj. at Compounds 1.In early use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1a(a).

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > [adjective] > with screw

screwed1628

screwbound1892

1628 R. Norton Gunner iv. 41 These [Ordnance] long since are quite out of vse, and for their fashions they were called Screwed Tapers.

1737 London Mag. May 278/1 The Soldiers..only made use of their Swords or screwed Bayonets.

1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 19 The great superiority of the Russians may be attributed..to their charging with screwed bayonets.

1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xxxix. 53 I was stopped..by a sign over a large shop advising me to buy some ‘screwed boots and shoes’.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 831/1 The principal disadvantage in the use of standard screwed soles is the great difficulty met with in removing..an old sole.

1913 Machinists' Monthly Jrnl. July 661/1 A joint in wood made with screws is stronger than one made with nails...A screwed joint has the additional advantage that it can be taken apart and put together again.

2006 J. D. Becker Lilibet Logs 62 I decided to cover it with a screwed and glued birch veneer.

†c. Of a device used to extract teeth: fitted with an adjustable screw. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > screw > furnished with adjustable screw

screwed1688

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 398/1 A single Beak Pellican with a screw,..called a Screw'd tooth Forcer.

a. Of a person's face, features, or expression: twisted or contorted owing to contraction of the facial muscles, typically as a result of effort, pain, or emotion. Also of the eyes: narrowed. Cf. screw v. 4b, screwed-up adj. 1.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > distorted

writhen?a1425

girning1447

mowinga1529

writhed1568

mumping1594

antic1595

frowned1598

screwed1609

sour1611

wreathed1645

fluish1674

working1717

screwed-up1728

frownful1771

grimacing1804

quirked1931

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E4 You shall disgrace him..if in the middle of his play,..you rise with a skreud and discontented face from your stoole to be gone.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse Pref. sig. A2^v As for the Saints (your thorough-pac'd ones I mean..with screw'd Faces and wry Mouths) I despair of them.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 257. ⁋1 Notwithstanding..the Pliancy of the Matter in which the Images are wrought..he did not think it possible for it to be twisted and tortured into so many skrew'd Faces and wry Features.

1780 London Courant 7 Aug. The old-fashioned mortal would relax his screwed features, and view with unrepressed laughter the ludicrous, contrasted changes that must ensue.

1852 F. C. Adams Manuel Pereira (1853) x. 107 All right! tip her down, my old fellow; none o' yer screwed faces over such liquor as that.

1856 Harper's Mag. July 190/2 Her countenance exhibited its usual screwed expression.

1917 Sat. Evening Post 21 Apr. 66/2 His concentrated seriousness and intensity, his screwed forehead and popping eyes, again made him comic.

1952 Times 8 July 7/7 Perhaps he would prefer to see his beautiful young ladies..leering at him from tightly screwed eyes?

2008 Afr. News (Nexis) 20 May To her surprise she saw Dihawa advancing towards her with a screwed face.

†b. Winding, spiral. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > helical

spiral1556

whelkeda1560

screwish1570

helical1613

screwed1615

cochleary1646

cochleous1694

helicoid1704

cochleateda1728

cochleate1835

helicoidal1864

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 588 This stony bone is not solide.., but thrilled and perforated with infinite holes, dens and scrued passages.

1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §48. 33 A scrued Ascent, instead of Stairs.

c. Of paper, fabric, etc.: twisted; crumpled or crushed into a ball. Cf. screw v. 6a(b), screwed-up adj. 2.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical

twine1551

snailing1615

spireda1625

involved1665

spiralled1665

screwlike1675

spiry1677

voluted1801

corkscrew1815

screwed1821

volute1839

spiriform1841

volutiform1843

spiring1871

corkscrewy1886

turbaned1924

spiralized1928

spiralizing1977

1821 A. Woodrooffe Cottage Dialogues ii. 33 Ah! Mary, that comes o' your thriftless ways; who but you would have put tea in a screwed paper.

1865 York Herald 21 Jan. 10/2 You have not given me the £5 note, but a piece of screwed paper.

1933 S. Jameson Day Off 32 The tips of her gloves were all screwed and wrinkled.

1978 P. Grace Mutuwhenua xviii. 127 I was thankful for the bowling litter—the chip cartons and ice-block wraps, the screwed bags..and take-away papers.

2006 E. Bond Chair in Plays 8 142 (stage direct.) Billy sits at the table with his back to her. Screwed papers on the table and floor.

†3. Strained or forced; (also) raised to a more exalted state. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > misused > misapplied > stretched beyond proper limits

strained1609

overstretcheda1628

screwed1646

1646 J. Ley After-reckoning with Mr Saltmarsh 28 A Book of verses, with as high scrued commendation..as could be set before the Poem of Homer in Greek.

1675 H. Danvers Innocency & Truth Vindicated ii. 82 Far fetch'd, and unnaturaly screwed, without either Reason, or truth.

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xi. l. 167 And rais'd her self to that transcendent pitch Of Monstrousness, which never any Fiend With Hell's most scrued wit before could reach.

4. attributive. U.S. Of hay: pressed into bales. Now rare (historical in later use).

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1776 G. Washington Let. 3 Mar. in Papers (1988) Revolutionary War Ser. III. 371 We..are obliged to depend entirely upon Chandaliers, Fascines, & screwed Hay for our Redoubts.

1824 By-laws Town Portland 28 Nothing herein contained shall extend to the sale of screwed hay, the weight of which may be marked on the bundle.

1859 Fourth Ann. Rep. Secretary Maine Board Agric. 114 Artificial drying would require the dried grass to be pressed like screwed hay, to exclude air and moisture.

1908 Lawyers Rep. Annotated New Ser. 12 597/2 All pressed and bundled hay offered for sale to be branded with the name of the packer.., and forfeiting all unbranded, screwed hay.

1932 L. F. Hill Diplomatic Relations United States & Brazil iv. 90 Americans sold to Brazilians..naval stores, screwed hay, sperm candles, bacon, and flour.

5. slang (in later use chiefly U.S.). Intoxicated, drunk; (also in weakened sense) slightly tipsy. Cf. screwy adj. 1.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk

merrya1382

semi-bousyc1460

pipe merry1542

totty1570

tipsy1577

martin-drunk1592

pleasant1596

mellow1611

tip-merry1612

flustered1615

lusticka1616

well to live1619

jolly1652

happy1662

hazy1673

top-heavy1687

hearty1695

half-seas-over1699

oiled1701

mellowish1703

half channelled over1709

drunkish1710

half-and-half1718

touched1722

uppisha1726

tosie1727

bosky1730

funny1751

fairish1756

cherry-merry1769

in suds1770

muddy1776

glorious1790

groggified1796

well-corned1800

fresh1804

to be mops and brooms1814

foggy1816

how-come-ye-so1816

screwy1820

off the nail1821

on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821

swipey1821

muggy1822

rosy1823

snuffy1823

spreeish1825

elevated1827

up a stump1829

half-cockedc1830

tightish1830

tipsified1830

half shaved1834

screwed1837

half-shot1838

squizzed1845

drinky1846

a sheet in the wind1862

tight1868

toppy1885

tiddly1905

oiled-up1918

bonkers1943

sloshed1946

tiddled1956

hickey-

1837 J. S. Coyne Queer Subj. i. ii. 7 I've been drinking..and I'm thinking, That I'm nearly screw'd outright.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 381 Intoxicated! not a bit of it! Screwed, nothing more!

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xi. 211 I swear I can see all right when I'm—when I'm moderately screwed.

1922 J. M. Mitchell tr. Petronius Leader of Fashion ii. xli. 59 I've had a skinful myself—feel a bit screwed: wine's gone to my head.

1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ Now die in It in L. Margulies Dames, Danger, Death (1960) 16 The screwed shamus.

1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 74 Screwed, drunk, intoxicated.

6. colloquial (originally U.S.).

a. In a difficult or hopeless situation. Also: spoiled, esp. by being badly managed or handled; messed up, ruined. Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. screwed-up adj. 4a.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched > in a hopeless position

sunk1583

screwed1955

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > bungling > bungled

bungled1787

muffed1876

boggled1877

blundered1880

bitched-up1893

foozled1899

bitched1918

trashed1926

mucked-up1930

loused-up1948

cocked-up1955

screwed1955

1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xxiv. 278 When things are bad you keep telling yourself they can't get worse. Then they get worse. And stay that way until you're so weary and screwed you can't even worry anymore.

1974 S. Terkel Working ii. 77 If you do what they tell you, you're screwed.

1981 J. Rebeta-Burditt Triplets 204 You're saying that the system is so screwed, it can't possibly work?

1997 Guardian 5 Mar. (Society section) 5/3 All the pollsters had different ways of saying that the Tories—are screwed. Down the jacksy. Finished.

2005 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 70 I'm totally screwed—I have nobody who's got my back, and everybody's out to get me.

b. Exhibiting or characterized by emotional or psychological instability; damaged; disturbed. Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. screwed-up adj. 4b.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > unstable or unbalanced

alienated1529

unsettleda1616

unhinged1732

fucked-up1865

unpoised1872

disturbed1904

screwed-up1943

fouled-up1953

dicked-up1967

fucked1971

screwed1984

1984 J. Hughes Breakfast Club (film script, final draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 41 John. You like your old man better than your mother? (Claire thinks.) Claire. Actually, they're both screwed.

1989 S. E. Hatty in J. Hanmer et al. Women, Policing, & Male Violence iv. 80 The women are really screwed in the head.

1990 W. Wasserstein Bachelor Girls 147 Some members of that 1969 junior class at Mount Holyoke who once believed that suburbia was screwed now secretly believe that they were, too.

2006 C. N. Douglas Cat in Quicksilver Caper xliv. 272 Molina no longer qualified. Too old. Too wired. Too seriously screwed.

7. slang (originally and chiefly U.S., in the language of rap and hip-hop). Designating a remix technique, recording, etc., in which a track is slowed down in tempo such that the overall pitch is dropped; also more fully screwed and chopped (also chopped and screwed). [Partly after the name of DJ Screw, stage name adopted by Robert Earl Davis, Jr. (1971–2000), U.S. DJ who created and popularized the technique in the 1990s in Houston, Texas.]

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1997 Houston (Texas) Press (Electronic ed.) 27 Feb. The laid-back hypnotic qualities of Screwed rap.

2000 Source July 178/3 Hundreds of mixtapes and four LPs later, ‘screwed music’ has become so popular that most local MCs now pay DJ Screw... ‘Down here now, every record has a screwed version,’ says Amp.

2007 J. D. Haugen in M. Hess Icons Hip Hop I. 261 The soporific effects of syrup inspired the chopped and screwed method of production pioneered by Houston's DJ Screw.

2011 B. Westhoff Dirty South iii. 68 By then [sc. 2005] nearly every southern rap album was receiving the ‘screwed and chopped’ treatment.

Compounds

C1. In sense 1b, with adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to adverbial combinations of the verb (see screw v. and to screw down at screw v. Phrasal verbs 1).

screwed-down adj.

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1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Explan. Sci. Terms 9/1 A screwed-down and air-tight lid.

1945 Pop. Sci. Nov. 187/2 The screwed-down piece is then removed, the hole is bored, and the piece is sawed in half through the hole.

2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 Jan. (Features section) 6 A screwed-down table on a bleached, tiled floor.

screwed-on adj.

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1868 Morning Post (London) 7 Oct. 4/3 It [sc. the figure in a jack-in-the-box] is kept down by a screwed-on lid.

1965 D. Francis Odds Against iv. 48 A screwed-on photo electric light meter.

2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. c21 An assemblage of pipes connected by screwed-on metal plates.

C2.

screwed plate n. (a) a metal plate that is held in place by screws; †(b) a hardened steel plate with threaded holes, used for making screws; = screw-plate n. at screw n.¹ Compounds 6 (obsolete rare).

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1804 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 5 25 There are double-dished screwed plates, to mend the boilers.

1869 C. Knight Mechanician 122 Screwed plates are..screw formers for rods, wire, small bolts [etc.].

1919 Times 3 Nov. 8/4 He had suffered a compound fracture of the leg, had been weeks in hospital, and came out with his leg patched up with a screwed plate.

2006 Adv. Techn. Standards Neurosurg. 31 110 Reconstructing the superior orbital and the lateral orbital rims is generally simple and necessitates either steel wire or screwed plates.

† screwed-surfaced joint n. (also screwed-surface joint) Anatomy Obsolete rare a type of hinge joint (ginglymus); = screw-joint n. (b) at screw n.¹ Compounds 6.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [noun]

seamc1050

commissure?a1425

arthrodia1565

commissary1577

gomphosis1578

inarticulation1578

suture1578

symphysis1578

synarthrosis1578

adarticulation1615

harmony1615

synchondrosis1615

enarthrosis1634

harmonia1657

mortise-articulation1658

ball and socket1664

synneurosis1676

syssarcosis1676

ginglymus1678

syndesmosis1726

ginglymus1733

hinge-joint1802

screw-joint1810

schindylesis1830

amphiarthrosis1835

pivot joint1848

synosteosis1848

synostosis1848

indigitation1849

screwed-surfaced joint1875

thorough-joint1889

1875 W. Turner Introd. Human Anat. I. 68 An important modification of the ginglymus is the screwed-surfaced joint.

1900 W. D. Zoethout tr. F. Schenck & A. Gürber Outl. Human Physiol. xiv. 203 In the screwed-surface joint [Ger. Schraubengelenk] the bones, during turning, slide over each other in opposite directions but move in the direction of the axis. Example: the elbow.

screwed work n. now rare the manufacturing of threaded components and parts; parts and components of this kind.

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1810 G. S. Mackenzie Gen. View Agric. Ross & Cromarty iii. 79 All kinds of screwed work.

1918 Cassier's Engin. Monthly Dec. 35 (advt.) There are many important features to be considered when selecting a diehead to deal with the screwed work produced on capstan and turret lathes.

1972 How Things Work III. 168 For the majority of screwed work a tap is used for internal threading..and a die head is used for external threading.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	screwed
释义	screwedadj. Brit. /skruːd/, U.S. /skrud/ Forms: see screw v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: screw n.¹, -ed suffix²; screw v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < screw n.¹ + -ed suffix², and partly < screw v. + -ed suffix¹. 1. a. (a) Having a helical groove or ridge so as to allow attachment to something fitted with a complementary groove or ridge; threaded. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > helical > having helical grooves or ridges screwed1590 1590 J. Blagrave Baculum Familliare iii. 7 The round or pomell of the ioincte..hauing a screwed pinne of yron throughe the centre with a screwed boxe on the vnder side to fasten or locke fast the staffe. 1629 F. Malthus tr. Treat. Artific. Fire-works 11 Leauing at the one end, as it were a handle, and on the other, a screwed hole; by which meanes the granad may be charged. 1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 150 Let there be a glasse,..having a hole at the bottome, to put a candle in with a screwed socket. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions 51 A Key perfectly square, with a Scrue turning within it..and no heavier then the triangle-scrued Key. 1716 E. Halley Lights in Air in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 421 Certain skrewed or striate Particles, adapted to the Pores they are to enter. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 120 The common bolt, which receives a screwed nut at the bottom. 1819 T. S. Peckston Theory & Pract. Gas-lighting 299 Service-pipes..are..screwed at one end, and furnished with a screwed socket at the other. 1883 F. Campin Details of Machinery xix. 224 The strength of a bolt or any description of screwed end must be determined from its diameter. 1907 H. A. Bethell Mod. Guns 9 The screwed breech of the gun is cut away to match. 2008 Mech. Syst. & Signal Processing 22 1802 Each tube is fitted with a screwed end connector which, when tightened into the node, also clamps the tube by means of an internal compression fitting. (b) Of a firearm or its barrel: having a spirally grooved or polygonal bore; rifled. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of bore rifled1619 screwed1657 full bore1666 wreathed1681 smooth-bore1799 small-bore1833 unrifled1851 poly-grooved1858 smooth-bored1859 polygroove1863 cylinder-bored1881 1657 Brief Relation Dangerous Plot in Mercurius Politicus No. 345. 7543 The two persons being apprehended, they were found to have scrued Pistols. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1271/4 A Case of screw'd barril Pistols. 1680 Eng. Mil. Discipl. i. 23 The King commands at present that in every Troop of his Guards be carried eight rifled or screwed Carabins. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 524 Excellent Screw'd Gunns. 1755 H. Rimius tr. N. L. von Zinzendorf in Suppl. to Candid Narr. Rise & Progress Herrnhuters p. xli Persons so described, were as cocksure struck by it, as a screwed gun, fired at two feet distance, hits the mark. ?a1764 W. Rider New Hist. Eng. XLIV. 207 The deponent had often seen Grove and Pickering walk in the park, with screwed pistols. 1898 Notes & Queries 7 May 377/2 Such barrels were then usually called ‘screwed’... Prince Rupert showed his skill as a marksman by hitting twice in succession the vane on St. Mary's, Stafford, at sixty yards with a ‘screwed’ pistol. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 270/3 Mr. George quotes the well-known story of Prince Rupert hitting the weathercock on St. Mary's Church, Stafford, with two successive shots from ‘screwed horseman's pistols’. b. Attached or fixed with an inserted screw or screws, or by means of an integral screw. Formerly also: †inserted or attached by screwing (obsolete). Cf. screw v. 1, 2a, 2d.See also screwed-down adj., screwed-on adj. at Compounds 1.In early use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1a(a). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > [adjective] > with screw screwed1628 screwbound1892 1628 R. Norton Gunner iv. 41 These [Ordnance] long since are quite out of vse, and for their fashions they were called Screwed Tapers. 1737 London Mag. May 278/1 The Soldiers..only made use of their Swords or screwed Bayonets. 1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 19 The great superiority of the Russians may be attributed..to their charging with screwed bayonets. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xxxix. 53 I was stopped..by a sign over a large shop advising me to buy some ‘screwed boots and shoes’. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 831/1 The principal disadvantage in the use of standard screwed soles is the great difficulty met with in removing..an old sole. 1913 Machinists' Monthly Jrnl. July 661/1 A joint in wood made with screws is stronger than one made with nails...A screwed joint has the additional advantage that it can be taken apart and put together again. 2006 J. D. Becker Lilibet Logs 62 I decided to cover it with a screwed and glued birch veneer. †c. Of a device used to extract teeth: fitted with an adjustable screw. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > screw > furnished with adjustable screw screwed1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 398/1 A single Beak Pellican with a screw,..called a Screw'd tooth Forcer. 2. a. Of a person's face, features, or expression: twisted or contorted owing to contraction of the facial muscles, typically as a result of effort, pain, or emotion. Also of the eyes: narrowed. Cf. screw v. 4b, screwed-up adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > distorted writhen?a1425 girning1447 mowinga1529 writhed1568 mumping1594 antic1595 frowned1598 screwed1609 sour1611 wreathed1645 fluish1674 working1717 screwed-up1728 frownful1771 grimacing1804 quirked1931 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E4 You shall disgrace him..if in the middle of his play,..you rise with a skreud and discontented face from your stoole to be gone. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse Pref. sig. A2^v As for the Saints (your thorough-pac'd ones I mean..with screw'd Faces and wry Mouths) I despair of them. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 257. ⁋1 Notwithstanding..the Pliancy of the Matter in which the Images are wrought..he did not think it possible for it to be twisted and tortured into so many skrew'd Faces and wry Features. 1780 London Courant 7 Aug. The old-fashioned mortal would relax his screwed features, and view with unrepressed laughter the ludicrous, contrasted changes that must ensue. 1852 F. C. Adams Manuel Pereira (1853) x. 107 All right! tip her down, my old fellow; none o' yer screwed faces over such liquor as that. 1856 Harper's Mag. July 190/2 Her countenance exhibited its usual screwed expression. 1917 Sat. Evening Post 21 Apr. 66/2 His concentrated seriousness and intensity, his screwed forehead and popping eyes, again made him comic. 1952 Times 8 July 7/7 Perhaps he would prefer to see his beautiful young ladies..leering at him from tightly screwed eyes? 2008 Afr. News (Nexis) 20 May To her surprise she saw Dihawa advancing towards her with a screwed face. †b. Winding, spiral. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical > helical spiral1556 whelkeda1560 screwish1570 helical1613 screwed1615 cochleary1646 cochleous1694 helicoid1704 cochleateda1728 cochleate1835 helicoidal1864 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 588 This stony bone is not solide.., but thrilled and perforated with infinite holes, dens and scrued passages. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §48. 33 A scrued Ascent, instead of Stairs. c. Of paper, fabric, etc.: twisted; crumpled or crushed into a ball. Cf. screw v. 6a(b), screwed-up adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical twine1551 snailing1615 spireda1625 involved1665 spiralled1665 screwlike1675 spiry1677 voluted1801 corkscrew1815 screwed1821 volute1839 spiriform1841 volutiform1843 spiring1871 corkscrewy1886 turbaned1924 spiralized1928 spiralizing1977 1821 A. Woodrooffe Cottage Dialogues ii. 33 Ah! Mary, that comes o' your thriftless ways; who but you would have put tea in a screwed paper. 1865 York Herald 21 Jan. 10/2 You have not given me the £5 note, but a piece of screwed paper. 1933 S. Jameson Day Off 32 The tips of her gloves were all screwed and wrinkled. 1978 P. Grace Mutuwhenua xviii. 127 I was thankful for the bowling litter—the chip cartons and ice-block wraps, the screwed bags..and take-away papers. 2006 E. Bond Chair in Plays 8 142 (stage direct.) Billy sits at the table with his back to her. Screwed papers on the table and floor. †3. Strained or forced; (also) raised to a more exalted state. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > misused > misapplied > stretched beyond proper limits strained1609 overstretcheda1628 screwed1646 1646 J. Ley After-reckoning with Mr Saltmarsh 28 A Book of verses, with as high scrued commendation..as could be set before the Poem of Homer in Greek. 1675 H. Danvers Innocency & Truth Vindicated ii. 82 Far fetch'd, and unnaturaly screwed, without either Reason, or truth. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xi. l. 167 And rais'd her self to that transcendent pitch Of Monstrousness, which never any Fiend With Hell's most scrued wit before could reach. 4. attributive. U.S. Of hay: pressed into bales. Now rare (historical in later use). ΚΠ 1776 G. Washington Let. 3 Mar. in Papers (1988) Revolutionary War Ser. III. 371 We..are obliged to depend entirely upon Chandaliers, Fascines, & screwed Hay for our Redoubts. 1824 By-laws Town Portland 28 Nothing herein contained shall extend to the sale of screwed hay, the weight of which may be marked on the bundle. 1859 Fourth Ann. Rep. Secretary Maine Board Agric. 114 Artificial drying would require the dried grass to be pressed like screwed hay, to exclude air and moisture. 1908 Lawyers Rep. Annotated New Ser. 12 597/2 All pressed and bundled hay offered for sale to be branded with the name of the packer.., and forfeiting all unbranded, screwed hay. 1932 L. F. Hill Diplomatic Relations United States & Brazil iv. 90 Americans sold to Brazilians..naval stores, screwed hay, sperm candles, bacon, and flour. 5. slang (in later use chiefly U.S.). Intoxicated, drunk; (also in weakened sense) slightly tipsy. Cf. screwy adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk merrya1382 semi-bousyc1460 pipe merry1542 totty1570 tipsy1577 martin-drunk1592 pleasant1596 mellow1611 tip-merry1612 flustered1615 lusticka1616 well to live1619 jolly1652 happy1662 hazy1673 top-heavy1687 hearty1695 half-seas-over1699 oiled1701 mellowish1703 half channelled over1709 drunkish1710 half-and-half1718 touched1722 uppisha1726 tosie1727 bosky1730 funny1751 fairish1756 cherry-merry1769 in suds1770 muddy1776 glorious1790 groggified1796 well-corned1800 fresh1804 to be mops and brooms1814 foggy1816 how-come-ye-so1816 screwy1820 off the nail1821 on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821 swipey1821 muggy1822 rosy1823 snuffy1823 spreeish1825 elevated1827 up a stump1829 half-cockedc1830 tightish1830 tipsified1830 half shaved1834 screwed1837 half-shot1838 squizzed1845 drinky1846 a sheet in the wind1862 tight1868 toppy1885 tiddly1905 oiled-up1918 bonkers1943 sloshed1946 tiddled1956 hickey- 1837 J. S. Coyne Queer Subj. i. ii. 7 I've been drinking..and I'm thinking, That I'm nearly screw'd outright. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 381 Intoxicated! not a bit of it! Screwed, nothing more! 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xi. 211 I swear I can see all right when I'm—when I'm moderately screwed. 1922 J. M. Mitchell tr. Petronius Leader of Fashion ii. xli. 59 I've had a skinful myself—feel a bit screwed: wine's gone to my head. 1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ Now die in It in L. Margulies Dames, Danger, Death (1960) 16 The screwed shamus. 1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 74 Screwed, drunk, intoxicated. 6. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. In a difficult or hopeless situation. Also: spoiled, esp. by being badly managed or handled; messed up, ruined. Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. screwed-up adj. 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched > in a hopeless position sunk1583 screwed1955 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > bungling > bungled bungled1787 muffed1876 boggled1877 blundered1880 bitched-up1893 foozled1899 bitched1918 trashed1926 mucked-up1930 loused-up1948 cocked-up1955 screwed1955 1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xxiv. 278 When things are bad you keep telling yourself they can't get worse. Then they get worse. And stay that way until you're so weary and screwed you can't even worry anymore. 1974 S. Terkel Working ii. 77 If you do what they tell you, you're screwed. 1981 J. Rebeta-Burditt Triplets 204 You're saying that the system is so screwed, it can't possibly work? 1997 Guardian 5 Mar. (Society section) 5/3 All the pollsters had different ways of saying that the Tories—are screwed. Down the jacksy. Finished. 2005 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 70 I'm totally screwed—I have nobody who's got my back, and everybody's out to get me. b. Exhibiting or characterized by emotional or psychological instability; damaged; disturbed. Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. screwed-up adj. 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > unstable or unbalanced alienated1529 unsettleda1616 unhinged1732 fucked-up1865 unpoised1872 disturbed1904 screwed-up1943 fouled-up1953 dicked-up1967 fucked1971 screwed1984 1984 J. Hughes Breakfast Club (film script, final draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 41 John. You like your old man better than your mother? (Claire thinks.) Claire. Actually, they're both screwed. 1989 S. E. Hatty in J. Hanmer et al. Women, Policing, & Male Violence iv. 80 The women are really screwed in the head. 1990 W. Wasserstein Bachelor Girls 147 Some members of that 1969 junior class at Mount Holyoke who once believed that suburbia was screwed now secretly believe that they were, too. 2006 C. N. Douglas Cat in Quicksilver Caper xliv. 272 Molina no longer qualified. Too old. Too wired. Too seriously screwed. 7. slang (originally and chiefly U.S., in the language of rap and hip-hop). Designating a remix technique, recording, etc., in which a track is slowed down in tempo such that the overall pitch is dropped; also more fully screwed and chopped (also chopped and screwed). [Partly after the name of DJ Screw, stage name adopted by Robert Earl Davis, Jr. (1971–2000), U.S. DJ who created and popularized the technique in the 1990s in Houston, Texas.] ΚΠ 1997 Houston (Texas) Press (Electronic ed.) 27 Feb. The laid-back hypnotic qualities of Screwed rap. 2000 Source July 178/3 Hundreds of mixtapes and four LPs later, ‘screwed music’ has become so popular that most local MCs now pay DJ Screw... ‘Down here now, every record has a screwed version,’ says Amp. 2007 J. D. Haugen in M. Hess Icons Hip Hop I. 261 The soporific effects of syrup inspired the chopped and screwed method of production pioneered by Houston's DJ Screw. 2011 B. Westhoff Dirty South iii. 68 By then [sc. 2005] nearly every southern rap album was receiving the ‘screwed and chopped’ treatment. Compounds C1. In sense 1b, with adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to adverbial combinations of the verb (see screw v. and to screw down at screw v. Phrasal verbs 1). screwed-down adj. ΚΠ 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Explan. Sci. Terms 9/1 A screwed-down and air-tight lid. 1945 Pop. Sci. Nov. 187/2 The screwed-down piece is then removed, the hole is bored, and the piece is sawed in half through the hole. 2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 Jan. (Features section) 6 A screwed-down table on a bleached, tiled floor. screwed-on adj. ΚΠ 1868 Morning Post (London) 7 Oct. 4/3 It [sc. the figure in a jack-in-the-box] is kept down by a screwed-on lid. 1965 D. Francis Odds Against iv. 48 A screwed-on photo electric light meter. 2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. c21 An assemblage of pipes connected by screwed-on metal plates. C2. screwed plate n. (a) a metal plate that is held in place by screws; †(b) a hardened steel plate with threaded holes, used for making screws; = screw-plate n. at screw n.¹ Compounds 6 (obsolete rare). ΚΠ 1804 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 5 25 There are double-dished screwed plates, to mend the boilers. 1869 C. Knight Mechanician 122 Screwed plates are..screw formers for rods, wire, small bolts [etc.]. 1919 Times 3 Nov. 8/4 He had suffered a compound fracture of the leg, had been weeks in hospital, and came out with his leg patched up with a screwed plate. 2006 Adv. Techn. Standards Neurosurg. 31 110 Reconstructing the superior orbital and the lateral orbital rims is generally simple and necessitates either steel wire or screwed plates. † screwed-surfaced joint n. (also screwed-surface joint) Anatomy Obsolete rare a type of hinge joint (ginglymus); = screw-joint n. (b) at screw n.¹ Compounds 6. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [noun] seamc1050 commissure?a1425 arthrodia1565 commissary1577 gomphosis1578 inarticulation1578 suture1578 symphysis1578 synarthrosis1578 adarticulation1615 harmony1615 synchondrosis1615 enarthrosis1634 harmonia1657 mortise-articulation1658 ball and socket1664 synneurosis1676 syssarcosis1676 ginglymus1678 syndesmosis1726 ginglymus1733 hinge-joint1802 screw-joint1810 schindylesis1830 amphiarthrosis1835 pivot joint1848 synosteosis1848 synostosis1848 indigitation1849 screwed-surfaced joint1875 thorough-joint1889 1875 W. Turner Introd. Human Anat. I. 68 An important modification of the ginglymus is the screwed-surfaced joint. 1900 W. D. Zoethout tr. F. Schenck & A. Gürber Outl. Human Physiol. xiv. 203 In the screwed-surface joint [Ger. Schraubengelenk] the bones, during turning, slide over each other in opposite directions but move in the direction of the axis. Example: the elbow. screwed work n. now rare the manufacturing of threaded components and parts; parts and components of this kind. ΚΠ 1810 G. S. Mackenzie Gen. View Agric. Ross & Cromarty iii. 79 All kinds of screwed work. 1918 Cassier's Engin. Monthly Dec. 35 (advt.) There are many important features to be considered when selecting a diehead to deal with the screwed work produced on capstan and turret lathes. 1972 How Things Work III. 168 For the majority of screwed work a tap is used for internal threading..and a die head is used for external threading. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1590
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