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If an idea or a plan is screwy, it seems very strange or crazy — it does not add up. People also use it for a situation that feels wrong: “There's something screwy going on.” It is informal. It is more American than British, and it can sound a little old-fashioned, but you still hear it. It usually describes things (ideas, plans, stories), not people; for a person, speakers more often say screwball. It does not mean slightly drunk any more, though that was an older meaning. Today the crazy, ridiculous sense is the one you will meet.
古怪的、荒謬的（口語）
組成From screw + -y. First recorded in 1820 meaning slightly drunk; the meaning “crazy, ridiculous” is from 1887.
同家族的字
- screwballsame screw piece meaning strange or crazy
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
screwyadj/ˈskɹuː.i/
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informalCrazy; silly; ridiculous
- 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?
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archaicinformalTipsy; slightly drunk.
- "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.
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archaicExacting; extortionate; close.
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archaicWorthless.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。