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screwy

/ˈskɹuː.i/

Rhymes with -uːi

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

adjective screwier · more screwy · screwiest · most screwy

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!
Similar: 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, fey, buggish, buggy, bughouse, barmy, batchy, batpoop, bats
archaic, informal Tipsy; slightly drunk. "A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."
Similar: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten
archaic Exacting; extortionate; close.
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.
Similar: bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky

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@misc{screwy_2026,
  title = {screwy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/screwy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}