screwyadj.

Brit.

/ˈskruːi/, U.S.

/ˈskrui/

Forms: 1800s scruey, 1800s– screwy.

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

Etymology: Partly < screw v. + -y suffix¹, and partly < screw n.¹ + -y suffix¹.With sense 4 compare a screw loose n. at screw n.¹ Phrases 3 and later screwball n. 2.

†1. colloquial. Slightly drunk; tipsy. Cf. screwed adj. 5. Obsolete.

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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-

1820 T. Creevey Let. 11 Nov. in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) I. 339 I..drank an extra bottle of claret..: not that I was the least screwy, but [etc.].

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. ix. 86 Blest if I didn't nearly drive her into a wegetable cart. I was so uncommon scruey!

1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fall viii. 107 Show me how you walk when you are slewed, will you, Stanley. I want to appear a little screwy.

†2. Of a horse: inferior; worn-out. Also (and earliest): characteristic of a worn-out horse. Cf. screw n.¹ 12. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > of horses: generally unsound

screwish1829

screwy1835

1835 Bell's Life in London 15 Nov. His legs known to be ‘screwy’.

1840 Sporting Mag. Mar. 383 I saw my hearty out of the yard, with his pink peeping out of his Macintosh, on his screwy old black horse.

1882 S. Harris Old Coaching Days vi. 81 Legs, frightfully screwy and dilapidated.

1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West I. vii. 106 Two likely-looking hunters, perhaps a little screwy, were brought round.

3. Of a person: mean, stingy. Cf. screw v. 19. Now rare (English regional (midlands) in later use).

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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]

gnedec900

gripplea1000

fastOE

narrow-hearteda1200

narrow?c1225

straitc1290

chinchc1300

nithinga1325

scarcec1330

clama1340

hard1340

scantc1366

sparingc1386

niggardc1400

chinchy?1406

retentivea1450

niggardousa1492

niggish1519

unliberal1533

pinching1548

dry1552

nigh1555

niggardly1560

churlish1566

squeamish1566

niggardish1567

niggard-like1567

holding1569

spare1577

handfast1578

envious1580

close-handed1585

hard-handed1587

curmudgeonly1590

parsimonious?1591

costive1594

hidebound1598

penny-pinching1600

penurious1600

strait-handed1600

club-fisted1601

dry-fisted1604

fast-handed1605

fast-fingered1607

close-fisted1608

near1611

scanting1613

carkingc1620

illiberal1623

clutch-fisteda1634

hideboundeda1640

clutch-fista1643

clunch-fisted1644

unbounteous1645

hard-fisted1646

purse-bound1652

close1654

stingy1659

tenacious1676

scanty1692

sneaking1696

gripe-handed1698

narrow-souled1699

niggardling1704

snippy1727

unindulgent1742

shabby1766

neargoinga1774

cheesemongering1781

split-farthing1787

save-all1788

picked1790

iron-fisted1794

unhandsome1800

scaly1803

nearbegoing1805

tight1805

nippit1808

nipcheese1819

cumin-splitting1822

partan-handed1823

scrimping1823

scrumptious1823

scrimpy1825

meanly1827

skinny1833

pinchfisted1837

mean1840

tight-fisted1843

screwy1844

stinty1849

cheeseparing1857

skinflinty1886

mouly1904

mingy1911

cheapskate1912

picey1937

tight-assed1961

chintzy1964

tightwad1976

1844 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 11 We should all starve for what we get from him, a screwy, pinchy—[interrupted sentence].

1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter III. vii. 96 He were so hard upon 'em, and that screwy, never a drop of milk or a fagot to give 'em.

1887 R. D. Blackmore Springhaven II. xx. 287 To a scrimpy and screwy man..such a position would have done a deal of harm.

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 91 Screwy, mean, miggardly.

4. colloquial (originally U.S.).

a. Insane, crazy; eccentric; ridiculous.

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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 mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous

gamelyOE

jape-worthyc1374

foolisha1500

ridiculous1533

ludibrious1570

laughable1600

mockablea1616

laughworthy1616

ludicral1656

derisible1657

absurd1716

grotesque1747

tomfool1762

irrisible1767

ludicrous1782

deridable1804

saugrenu1876

screwy1887

derisive1896

josh1908

nutty1915

derisory1923

dingbat1935

bonkers1961

joky1964

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-

1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 8 Oct. 3/3 Do, now, please to stop them notes which are so full of screwy talk. They make me tired.

1948 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xiii. 166 We feel our clients are screwy but not bloodstained.

1966 R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experim. 42 Sheila was Tom's date and I had Tom's sister, Ruth, for a date. Sound screwy?

2009 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 30 July 5 a The screwy idea that a freely elected president somehow isn't the legitimate holder of the office is a dangerous chant.

b. Happening, operating, or functioning in an unexpected or unsatisfactory way; wrong; faulty.

ΚΠ

1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y i. ii. 70 There's something screwy... I mean, if there's poison in the pear, and the old lady didn't eat pears—.

1946 M. Lowry Let. 22 June in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 584 I may be a bit screwy on my German at one point here though.

1996 C. Higson Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen x. 116 The best intentions can go screwy.

2000 R. Topping Kevin & Perry go Large iii. 29 Treading as carefully as he could given his sense of balance was all a bit screwy.

†5. Of a track or road: winding. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > winding

ambagious1592

zigzagging1827

bendy1885

winding1890

screwy1891

windy1972

1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 15 A jaggy, steep, screwy little trackway.

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

单词	screwy
释义	screwyadj. Brit. /ˈskruːi/, U.S. /ˈskrui/ Forms: 1800s scruey, 1800s– screwy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: screw v., -y suffix¹; screw n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < screw v. + -y suffix¹, and partly < screw n.¹ + -y suffix¹.With sense 4 compare a screw loose n. at screw n.¹ Phrases 3 and later screwball n. 2. †1. colloquial. Slightly drunk; tipsy. Cf. screwed adj. 5. Obsolete. 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- 1820 T. Creevey Let. 11 Nov. in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) I. 339 I..drank an extra bottle of claret..: not that I was the least screwy, but [etc.]. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. ix. 86 Blest if I didn't nearly drive her into a wegetable cart. I was so uncommon scruey! 1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fall viii. 107 Show me how you walk when you are slewed, will you, Stanley. I want to appear a little screwy. †2. Of a horse: inferior; worn-out. Also (and earliest): characteristic of a worn-out horse. Cf. screw n.¹ 12. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > of horses: generally unsound screwish1829 screwy1835 1835 Bell's Life in London 15 Nov. His legs known to be ‘screwy’. 1840 Sporting Mag. Mar. 383 I saw my hearty out of the yard, with his pink peeping out of his Macintosh, on his screwy old black horse. 1882 S. Harris Old Coaching Days vi. 81 Legs, frightfully screwy and dilapidated. 1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West I. vii. 106 Two likely-looking hunters, perhaps a little screwy, were brought round. 3. Of a person: mean, stingy. Cf. screw v. 19. Now rare (English regional (midlands) in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] gnedec900 gripplea1000 fastOE narrow-hearteda1200 narrow?c1225 straitc1290 chinchc1300 nithinga1325 scarcec1330 clama1340 hard1340 scantc1366 sparingc1386 niggardc1400 chinchy?1406 retentivea1450 niggardousa1492 niggish1519 unliberal1533 pinching1548 dry1552 nigh1555 niggardly1560 churlish1566 squeamish1566 niggardish1567 niggard-like1567 holding1569 spare1577 handfast1578 envious1580 close-handed1585 hard-handed1587 curmudgeonly1590 parsimonious?1591 costive1594 hidebound1598 penny-pinching1600 penurious1600 strait-handed1600 club-fisted1601 dry-fisted1604 fast-handed1605 fast-fingered1607 close-fisted1608 near1611 scanting1613 carkingc1620 illiberal1623 clutch-fisteda1634 hideboundeda1640 clutch-fista1643 clunch-fisted1644 unbounteous1645 hard-fisted1646 purse-bound1652 close1654 stingy1659 tenacious1676 scanty1692 sneaking1696 gripe-handed1698 narrow-souled1699 niggardling1704 snippy1727 unindulgent1742 shabby1766 neargoinga1774 cheesemongering1781 split-farthing1787 save-all1788 picked1790 iron-fisted1794 unhandsome1800 scaly1803 nearbegoing1805 tight1805 nippit1808 nipcheese1819 cumin-splitting1822 partan-handed1823 scrimping1823 scrumptious1823 scrimpy1825 meanly1827 skinny1833 pinchfisted1837 mean1840 tight-fisted1843 screwy1844 stinty1849 cheeseparing1857 skinflinty1886 mouly1904 mingy1911 cheapskate1912 picey1937 tight-assed1961 chintzy1964 tightwad1976 1844 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 11 We should all starve for what we get from him, a screwy, pinchy—[interrupted sentence]. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter III. vii. 96 He were so hard upon 'em, and that screwy, never a drop of milk or a fagot to give 'em. 1887 R. D. Blackmore Springhaven II. xx. 287 To a scrimpy and screwy man..such a position would have done a deal of harm. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 91 Screwy, mean, miggardly. 4. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. Insane, crazy; eccentric; ridiculous. 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 mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous gamelyOE jape-worthyc1374 foolisha1500 ridiculous1533 ludibrious1570 laughable1600 mockablea1616 laughworthy1616 ludicral1656 derisible1657 absurd1716 grotesque1747 tomfool1762 irrisible1767 ludicrous1782 deridable1804 saugrenu1876 screwy1887 derisive1896 josh1908 nutty1915 derisory1923 dingbat1935 bonkers1961 joky1964 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- 1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 8 Oct. 3/3 Do, now, please to stop them notes which are so full of screwy talk. They make me tired. 1948 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xiii. 166 We feel our clients are screwy but not bloodstained. 1966 R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experim. 42 Sheila was Tom's date and I had Tom's sister, Ruth, for a date. Sound screwy? 2009 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 30 July 5 a The screwy idea that a freely elected president somehow isn't the legitimate holder of the office is a dangerous chant. b. Happening, operating, or functioning in an unexpected or unsatisfactory way; wrong; faulty. ΚΠ 1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y i. ii. 70 There's something screwy... I mean, if there's poison in the pear, and the old lady didn't eat pears—. 1946 M. Lowry Let. 22 June in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 584 I may be a bit screwy on my German at one point here though. 1996 C. Higson Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen x. 116 The best intentions can go screwy. 2000 R. Topping Kevin & Perry go Large iii. 29 Treading as carefully as he could given his sense of balance was all a bit screwy. †5. Of a track or road: winding. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > winding ambagious1592 zigzagging1827 bendy1885 winding1890 screwy1891 windy1972 1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 15 A jaggy, steep, screwy little trackway. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1820
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