screwed
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screwed
Rhymes with -uːd
Where it comes from
From screw + -ed.
* The modern sense of screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews). It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s, it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into participial adjectives.
* The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.
adjective more screwed · most screwed
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Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
They found out about our betrayal, so now we're screwed.
Similar: fucked
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Intoxicated.
"[…] Did you know that my husband came home intoxicated?"
Mrs. Brown laughed.
"Oh, not so bad as that, surely! Only a little 'screwed.' George was 'quisby,' too. But then its Christmas, you know."
Similar: drunk
verb
- simple past and past participle of screw He screwed the boards together tightly.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: shaft, bed, jockey, ass, hump, shag, bang, bonk, gaoler, jailer, prison guard, do it, turnkey, draw out, make out, sleep with
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