screwingn.
/ˈskruːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskruɪŋ/ 1. The action or an act of screwing (in various senses of screw v.).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > actions of horse
screwing1609
go-by1615
stride1883
flying change1946
walk-up1946
the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun]
extortionc1340
askingc1400
extort power1492
exactiona1513
bribing1533
extort1541
pollage?1542
bloodsucking1548
scaffery1555
eviction1560
wringing1589
wresting1611
screwing1680
squeezing1681
extortinga1711
wringing1730
over-pull1867
Rachmanism1963
Rachmanship1963
the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > contortion
torsion1660
screw1684
screwing1738
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > manner of playing ball
bata1400
back-swing1577
banding1589
stroke1662
stop1773
swipe1788
hit1810
straik1820
screwing1825
return1833
volleying1837
return stroke1838
volley1851
swiper1853
shot1868
handling1870
screw kick1870
mishit1882
smash1882
misfield1886
fumble1895
run-up1897
mishitting1900
balloon1904
carryback1905
placement1909
tonk1922
trick shot1924
retrieve1952
sizzler1960
undercut1960
shotmaking1969
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]
fastship?c1225
scarcenessa1300
scarcity1340
niggardyc1390
nithingheada1400
scarcehead1420
nigonryc1430
niggardship?a1439
pinching1440
straitheadc1450
straitnessc1460
niggard cheap1463
niggardnessc1487
nigonshipa1500
niggardise1502
niggishness1519
niggardliness1556
parsimony1561
illiberality1581
nearness1584
tenacity1586
Euclionism1599
paring1607
servilitya1610
niggeralitya1612
scanting1625
scant-handednessa1627
closefistedness1631
niggardess1632
close-handedness1646
strait-handedness1649
penury1651
unbountifulness1660
parsimoniousness1671
penuriousness1672
stinginess1682
closeness1712
illiberalness1727
meanness1755
cheeseparing1834
scrimping1835
churlishness1846
screwing1848
skinflintism1853
screwiness1856
flint-paring1860
skinflintiness1861
scrimp1864
flint-skinning1873
penny-pinching1895
skimping1898
tight-fistedness1975
1609 W. Rowley Search for Money 13 The bloud ranne about his guiltie nose, with the very suddaine skrewing of his face.
1646 H. Wills Power Comm. County Somerset 6 I encountered a screwing..and wresting my honest meaning (with a designe to ruine mee) into a contrary sence.
1680 J. Bunyan Life & Death Mr. Badman (1905) 115 Extortion is a screwing from men more than by the Law of God or men is right.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xviii Every Turn of their Hands, every Screwing of their Bodies.
1796 Tomahawk! 12 Feb. 372/2 I had rather hear an honest sailor sing ‘Rule Britannia’, than all the squalings, screwings, writhings, and distortions, of twenty Madam Banti's put together.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 48 The tall gentleman..played billiards with uncommon skill, and possessed all the delicate arts of chalking, and twisting, and screwing.
1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §1658 Screwing..is a method of getting through the thick hedges that cannot be got over.
1848 Illustr. London News 22 Jan. 36/2 Cheapness, economy, or ‘screwing’ will be found at the bottom of most railway casualties.
1903 Electr. Rev. 28 Aug. 349/1 Being opposite in their screwing, the two helices serve to equilibrate the end thrust.
1972 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 30 Aug. The people living in the houses..were the ones who were taking a screwing. They paid $17,000 to $19,000 for houses with no garages, no landscaping, no nothing!
2001 Independent 5 Feb. i. 15/2 Paul Davidson's patented invention..joins two pipes without the need for soldering, screwing, welding or compression.
2. spec.
a. Criminals' slang. The action or an act of burgling a place. Cf. screw v. 21.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun]
housebreachlOE
burgh-brechea1387
burglary1532
housebreaking1607
breaking and entering1617
game1811
crack1819
screwing1819
effraction1840
burst1857
burglarizing1872
burgling1880
ship-breaking1901
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 204 Screwsman, a thief who goes out a screwing.
1868 Temple Bar Nov. 535 I did the screwing in this way. Whenever I saw a lobby lighted with gas, I looked in at the key-hole. If I saw anything worth lifting I ‘screwed’ the door.
1903 Daily Chron. 21 July 11/1 Counsel explained that ‘screwing’ meant committing burglary.
1960 Times 21 Sept. 3/7 It was Harris who wanted to go screwing and I suggested we ‘rolled’ someone instead.
1980 J. McClure Spike Island (1981) iii. xxxvi. 531 The lad who'd been doing all these screwings, housebreakings and shopbreakings in the area was eighteen.
2008 W. Clarkson Billy Hill ii. 21 He didn't rest on his laurels, seeing screwing as a trade which provided a regular living.
b. The action of ice in freezing into a solid mass, often moving upwards under pressure as floes collide; an instance of this. Also in ice screwing. Cf. screw v. 11.
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1894 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 8 Aug. 4/5 On May 28 the screwing of the ice commenced in real earnest.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 610/2 But if the vessel is caught in an ‘ice screwing’, the ramming together of giant floes, it will be crushed like an eggshell.
1958 Proc. Conf. Arctic Sea Ice (Nat. Acad. Sci. Publ. 598) ii. 68/2 Screwing of ice is observed and apprehended.
1998 Sailing Direct. Greenland & Iceland (U.S. National Imagery & Mapping Agency, Publ. 181) (ed. 6) vi. 82/2 Strong S and SW current causing severe ice screwing.
c. slang (originally U.S.). The action or an act of having sexual intercourse. Cf. screw v. 7b.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of
swivec1560
fall1594
sleep1612
fuck1663
merry bout1780
stroke1785
screw?c1845
charver1846
fuckeea1866
sex act1888
frigc1890
grind1893
mount1896
poke1902
tumble1903
screwing1904
ride1905
roll1910
trick1926
lay1932
jump1934
bang1937
knock1937
shag1937
a roll in the hay1945
boff1956
naughty1959
root1961
shtup1964
home run1967
seeing to1970
legover1975
bonk1978
zatch1980
boink1989
1904 Lustful Mem. Young & Passionated Girl 20 When he asked what I knew about getting in the family way, I said, ‘I know about screwing.’
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer xv. 248 I have eaten up my honour with random screwing. I have defiled myself.
1954 V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1976) lxxxvi. 127 She didn't have enough clothes on to wad a shotgun, so Elbert give her a good screwing.
1971 C. Fick Danziger Transcript 70 I fail to see how an ancient screwing can be of current interest.
2014 L. Foster Dash of Peril xxv. 453 Screwing was the best way I knew to block a bad memory.
Compounds
C1. With adverbs, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs at screw v. (in various senses of the phrasal verbs).
screwing around n.
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1971 J. C. Oates in Salmagundi Winter 34 I don't need any screwing around.
1988 M. Bishop Unicorn Mountain (1989) iv. 39 After much more skylarking and screwing around, Sam married Dolores Arriola, vowing to set himself straight.
2005 W. Deverell April Fool xxiii. 267 The screwing around with other women, the guilt, that's what led me to drink.
screwing down n.
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1799 A. Anderson Detail of Attempt to tune & repair Organ 41 All that Mr. Corbet did on this occasion was, the screwing down of one key.
1818 Evening Star 2 Dec. The screwing down of the state coffin only occupied about two minutes.
1841 Argus 24 Jan. 53/3 This would do more to relieve the Government expences than the screwing down of poor clerks.
1932 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 19 Mar. 12/2 The screwing down of wages to the lowest possible level.
2014 E. Andrews Place, Setting, Perspective iv. 43 The rhythmic screwing down of the coffin lid.
screwing up n.
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1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer viii. f. 260v To helpe the screwing up, by some and some,Of Monarchies to Tyrannies.
1673 Remarques on Humours of Town 54 A scruing up the courage of a friend to those fantastick heights.
1707 W. Nicolson Blessings Sixth Year 10 A most irreverent, a most impudent, skrewing up of the Divine Providence to attend the Carnal Affections of Manhood.
1846 Knickerbocker Apr. 366 Observe that well-fed-looking old gentleman; what a screwing up of countenance, and sudden twitching up of right foot.
1908 Building News 4 Sept. 323/2 There must be a very great number of screwings-up and unscrewing of boring rods.
1972 G. M. Leach in N. B. Jones Ethological Stud. Child Behaviour (1976) x. 277 Wince—Protective screwing up of eyes with..lids blinking rapidly.
2003 ‘S. Pax’ Weblog Diary 22 May in Baghdad Blog 178 This way we get to blame the Americans for the screwing-up of our future.
C2. attributive. Designating equipment used for making screws or cutting screw threads, as screwing apparatus, screwing-engine, screwing-machine, screwing table, screwing tackle, etc.
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1831 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 19 Nov. 1/6 A Screwing-Machine, with Plates and Taps complete.
1861 F. Campin Pract. Hand-turning 120 Dies very similar to the above are also used in a machine called a screwing-engine.
1870 Amateur Mech. Workshop 47 The above [stock] forms the most usual screwing apparatus of the general mechanic.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Screwing-table, a kind of screw-stock, used for forming threads of screw-bolts or wooden screws.
1890 Daily News 22 Sept. 2/6 Lifting and screwing tackle are in good demand.
1909 Installation News 3 58 Screwing tools.
1983 Mariner's Mirror 69 456 Screws often bear evidence of the means used to produce them, whether by cutting with a single-point tool or with a chaser in a lathe or ‘screwing engine’, or whether by threading with screwing tackle that cut or forced up the thread.
2006 R. L. Hills in I. Inkster Hist. Techol. XXVI. 58 The differences in sizes of threads on nuts and bolts from different firms did not matter as long as the same screwing tackle was employed in effecting repairs.
C3.
screwing die n. either of the two parts of a hollow, internally threaded tool used to cut a screw thread; (in later use) a similar tool made in a single piece; = screw die n. at screw n.1 Compounds 6.
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1830 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 5 325 The cutting or screwing dies or stocks are to be well supplied with anti-attrition liquid.
1922 Engin. Production 14 Sept. 262/2 ‘Coventry’ screwing dies gave better results when a high tungsten steel and a high hardening temperature were used.
2008 A. Reichelt tr. H. Tzschätsch Appl. Machining Technol. Ref. 390 Hand- and machine operated circular screwing dies and hand-operated die stocks.
screwing stock n. now rare a device used for cutting screws, esp. one with two or more internal dies; = screw die n. at screw n.1 Compounds 6.
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1830 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 5 325 The cutting or screwing dies or stocks are to be well supplied with anti-attrition liquid.
1834 Rep. Select Comm. Steam Navigation to India App. xi. 42 A pair of screwing stocks with 2 tap wrenches.
1908 Catal. Mech. Engin. Coll. (Victoria & Albert Museum) (ed. 2) II. 266 When the cylindrical rod is rotated the inclined action of the chisel causes this screwing stock to travel along the bar, and the chaser which follows cuts the thread thus started.
1953 Electr. Rev. 24 Apr. 906/2 Among thread taps, chaser type screwing stocks and dies is a portable power screwing machine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
screwingadj.
/ˈskruːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskruɪŋ/ That screws (in various senses).
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the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective]
writhinga1529
torcenous1532
bloodsucking1548
racking1576
exacting1583
extorting1598
extortious1607
sharking1608
wringing1620
exactious1630
extortionizing1630
extortionable1632
extortioninga1641
extortionous1644
extortive1646
screwing1647
extracting1654
hirudinous1654
rack-renting1779
extortionate1789
extortionary1805
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [adjective] > ramming together (of floes)
screwing1889
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [adjective] > burgling
burgling1880
burglaring1909
burglared1928
screwing1960
1647 S. Moore Ανωθεκρυπτα iv. 155 in Θεοσπλαγχνισθεις All scruing deceivers, shall be forced to say of their own unlawfully acquir'd goods, as Israel of Idolls, get you hence.
1683 J. Nalson Impartial Coll. of Great Affairs of State II. 556 So many Needy and Poor Ministers, who for raising of themselves have by scruing Inventions Poll'd the Gentry and Commons of this Kingdom.
1707 S. Sewall Diary (1879) I. 39 The Governour, with his Son Paul..are very Screwing and Exacting upon the People.
1737 J. Swift Let. to Barber 30 Mar. in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 124 Your society hath raised the rents..to four times the value of what the tenants formerly paid; which is beyond what I have ever heard, even among the most screwing landlords of this kingdom.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. 257 A screwing fellow, by what I understand—a domineering fellow—who would expect men to do as he liked without paying them for it.
1889 Daily News 25 May 5/4 Screwing ice, maëlstroms, and impassable ice..stopped them.
1960 Observer 24 Jan. 5/1 The top screwing teams, the ones who went in for the really big blags, violent robberies.
1989 Sargasso 6 5 It is that narrator who tries to describe the ‘real’ way to be female: the screwing bitch will finally be controlled.
2016 V. M. Morey et al. in P. Randelli et al. Arthroscopy xxxv. 459/2 The..cannula is pushed against the tip of the sheath into the joint by gentle screwing hand movements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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