screwy
/ˈskɹuː.i/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""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."
- "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."