screwy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈskɹuː.i/
Etymology
From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.
Meanings
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(informal) Crazy; silly; ridiculous
Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?
1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 13, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 118:That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!
Now, you don't actually have to have another printer in order to add another printer. This might sound a bit screwy on my part, but it is true.
2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 155:
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(archaic, informal) Tipsy; slightly drunk.
Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated.
[1877, Edward Peacock, A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, London: Trubner & Co., page 120, English Dialect Society:"A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."
1868, Memorials of a theological college., London: Houlston & Wright, page 9:
- (archaic) Exacting; extortionate; close.
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(archaic) Worthless.
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.
1840 March 14, Hal of the West, “Brilliant run with the Puckeridge hounds”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume XX, number 119, page 383:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most screwy | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| screwier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| screwiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more screwy | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Relateds
screwball · have a screw loose · screw up
Synonyms
ripe · stinking · scummy · cruddy · loaded · worse for wear · vain · triobolar · not worth a dime · splashed · pounded · not worth hell room · good-for-nothing · bladdered · top-heavy · batchy · blottoed · bread baskets · tripy · nutty · wazzed · bingoed · rubbishly · quisby · crapulous · cray · juiced up · muzzy · batcrap · bastardly · strut · kaylied · squirrelly · eccentric · four sheets in the wind · lubricated · apeshit · psychoceramic · blasted · cra-cra · loopy · jarred · twisted · zooted · gished · half cut · fershnickered · in the drink · putid · liquored up · half seas over · slizzard · mabok · plowed · tenth-rate · unappreciated · lubed · MWI · slarmied · cuckoo · impaired · in liquor · dreckish · puggled · blue · lushed · fucked in the head · punk · have drink taken · sodden · bonkers · nucking futs · glorious · drecky · hatstand · scabbed · lashed · mortalled · strawlike · off one's tits · blootered · trashed · zoned · bollocksed · nuts · langers · nut job · scammered · cocking · disguised · well-oiled · chaffy · spanceled · bat-shit · bungfu · groggified · oiled · mullered · wrecked · stewed · soshed · no good / no-good · shitey · valueless · snookered · dotty · loon · cut · insane · sauced up · mouldy · fuzzy-headed · blocked · inebriate · demented · hosed · pissass · off the beam · daft · tight · ebriated · cullionly · cup-shot · fuckered up · bananas · meshugge · loco · tippled · Oliver · blitzed · medicated · obliviated · fluthered · wellied · unvaluable · primed · naughty · a sheet in the wind's eye · munted · for the birds · stinko · plastered · corned · flushed · sloppy drunk · gee-eyed · shellacked · suckworthy · mashed · cacky · schloshed · besotted · bottled · blewed · non compos mentis · clobbered · maudlin · tuned · good-for-naught · insobrietous · spongy · fucked up · screwy · cup-shotten · shitty · mental · whittled · fuckfaced · weird · parlatic · besotten · not worth a farthing · soaken · budgy · goodless · nerts · larruped · mucid · fried · bibulous · fou · have the sun in one's eyes · oiled up · muddled · pie-eyed · shedded · stonkered · snuffy · crazy as a pet coon · draffy · sozzled · Adrian Quist · moonsick · crocked · not worth a nickel · bibacious · feeling no pain · nimptopsical · fucking · steamboats · worse for liquor · hooted · overcome · liquory · garbagey · half polluted · sauced · barmy · half lit · zorched · pickled · kisky · draffish · not worth a damn · tired and emotional · ginned · lit · drunked up · tanked up · bedrunken · kettled · fresh · whackjob · disturbed · smashed · swacked · nonvaluable · aled up · zonked · Brahms and Liszt · three sheets in the wind · on the ran tan · elephant's trunk · Mozart and Liszt · unsane · beliquored · snozzled · sicko · tilted · out of sight · in the bag · temulent · bungalowed · lamped · tanked · wet · stoated · Brahms · crapalicious · cracked · bats · high as a kite · hog-whimpering · three sheets to the wind · over the edge · stoned · wackadoodle · spannered · gesuip · zotzed · whacky · shicker · hazed · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · crazy as a cootie bug · nut · two-bit · no-account · meshigener · unbalanced · insober · pixilated · jabberwocky · tipsy · shitty-ass · of no value · groggy · not worth a cent · flush · in one's cups · doolally · fap · tonto · woozy · not worth a brass farthing · inebriated · boozy · scuttered · potty · worthless · starkers · not worth a penny · not worth a plug nickel · out of one's face · psychotic · sloshed · skunked · full · binned · crazy · out of one's head · honkers · jaked · nonsane · befuddled · newted · whacko · cocked · bombed · ploughed · sotted · shand · blind drunk · shitstained · potshot · loony · fuddled · shit · 5150 · crackers · nutso · gaga · mortal · worth nothing · stotious · how came you so · messed up · loony tunes · lash · Oliver Twist · faced · off one's box · crazy as a cootie · wutless · overrefreshed · harebrained · monged · slammed · temulentive · flustered · ossified · ratfaced · hoovered · destroyed · toasted · burlin' · inebrious · obfuscated · overtaken · twatfaced · junky · batshit · deranged · flooey · hammered · barking mad · wode · sewed up · toping · snockered · duffing · souped-up · barking · not worth salt · gattered · batpoop · looped · off the chain · sprung · cockeyed · fruit loops · screwed · batty · withered · drunk · mad with it · sorry-ass · paralytic · ineffectual · crazy as a bedbug · bevvied · cray-cray · mad · bughouse · daffy · loose · sixpenny · not worth a whistle · elevated · out of one's box · inter pocula · spiffed · soused · lunatic · wazzocked · psycho · nutballs · cunted · fluted · crazed · drunken · elephant's · ripped · kooky · tight as a tick · nutter · hooched up · not worth a curse · razzled · arseholed · langered · buggy · frosted · potted · sozzly · bosky · wastey · rubbishy · distraught · juiced · not worth a cress · blind · high as a Georgia pine · dead drunk · sottish · maggoted · muggy · legless · floored · toshy · drunk as a piper · nought · screwy · rolling · nappy · lathered · out of it · throwed · off one's head · invaluable · blown · adrip · gassed · raddled · wobbly · all mops and brooms · rubbered · high · ripshit · polluted · lubed up · zany · fuzzy-minded · in one's altitudes · schnockered · maggot · mentally ill · ebriose · top-heavy with drink · not worth a Continental · shickered · buggish · squiffed · trinkety · loopy · yampy · canned · a sheet in the wind