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Definition of 'screwy'English
Adjective
( er)
(informal) Crazy; silly; ridiculous; insane; demented; unreasonable.
- That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!
(archaic|informal) Tipsy; slightly drunk.
Quotations
* 1840 , Hal of the West. Brilliant run with the Puckeridge hounds. The Sporting Magazine. March, 1840. Vol XX, No 119. p383
*:" I saw my hearty out of the yard, with his pink peeping out of his Macintosh, on his screwy old black horse, and I heard from my fair waiter that he had been vaunting that he would lick us all into fits."
* 1868 , Memorials of a theological college. London: Houlston & Wright. 1868. p9
*:"A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."
* 1877 , Edward Peacock, English Dialect Society. A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham. London: Trubner & Co. 1877. p120
*:"Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated."
Related terms
* have a screw loose
* screwball
* screw up
Similar to 'screwy'sorry, sherry, scary, surrey, skerry, scurry, showery, sweary, saury, sorrowy, shory, serry, scarry, scarey, squiry, skurry, scray, surry
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