screwy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
/ˈskɹuː.i/
Definition of screwy
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(informal)Crazy; silly; ridiculous
“That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!”
“Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?”
“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.”
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adj
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(informal)Crazy; silly; ridiculous
“That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!”
“Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?”
“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.”
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(archaic, informal)Tipsy; slightly drunk.
“"A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."”
“Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated.”
- (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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.
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