| 单词 | screwball |
| 释义 | screwball (once / 32294 pages) 1n 2nadj WORD FAMILY screwball: screwballs USAGE EXAMPLESRebecca Miller’s love-among-academics comedy is faintly Shakespearean, faintly screwball, and entirely charming. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) So far, so screwball — even if the pacing is off. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) It was an odd show whose shoe-string budget and screwball tone often mimicked the very movies it skewered. Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1 n a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown 2Hyper delivery, pitch (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter 1n a whimsically eccentric person Syn|Hyper crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball a person with an unusual or odd personality 2adj foolish; totally unsound a screwball proposal without a prayer of working Syn crazy, half-baked, softheaded impractical not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters |
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