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Screwy vs Screws - What's the difference?

screwy | screws |

As an adjective screwy

is crazy; silly; ridiculous; insane; demented; unreasonable.

As a noun screws is

plural of lang=en.

As a verb screws is

third-person singular of screw.

screwy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Crazy; silly; ridiculous; insane; demented; unreasonable.
    • That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!
  • (archaic, informal) Tipsy; slightly drunk.

    • Quotations

    * 1840 , Hal of the West. Brilliant run with the Puckeridge hounds. The Sporting Magazine. March, 1840. Vol XX, No 119. p383 *:" 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." * 1868 , Memorials of a theological college. London: Houlston & Wright. 1868. p9 *:"A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday." * 1877 , Edward Peacock, English Dialect Society. A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham. London: Trubner & Co. 1877. p120 *:"Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated."

    Related terms

    * have a screw loose * screwball * screw up

    screws

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (screw)