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screwy

adj
/ˈskɹuː.i/

Etymology

From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.

  1. derived from *(s)keru-✻
  2. derived from *skrūbō✻
  3. derived from *scrūva✻
  4. derived from scrōfa
  5. derived from escroue — “nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”
  6. inherited from screw
  7. formed as screwy — “screw + -y”

Definitions

  1. Crazy

    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.

  2. Tipsy

    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.

  3. Exacting

    Exacting; extortionate; close.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for screwy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA