Screwball vs Screwy - What's the difference?
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(baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
(US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
(originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
* 2013 , Tom Shone, Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last?'' (in ''The Guardian , 11 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/jan/11/oscar-nominations-surprise-taste]
(informal) Crazy; silly; ridiculous; insane; demented; unreasonable.
(archaic, informal) Tipsy; slightly drunk.
Screwy is a related term of screwball.
As adjectives the difference between screwball and screwy
is that screwball is crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird while screwy is crazy; silly; ridiculous; insane; demented; unreasonable.As a noun screwball
is a pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.screwball
English
Noun
(en noun)- The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.
- I will not listen to this screwball any longer.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook , an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.
Derived terms
* screwball comedyscrewy
English
Adjective
(er)- That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!