screwy

Adjective

screwy (comparative screwier or more screwy, superlative screwiest or most screwy)

1. (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!
   • Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 13, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 118

   Synonyms:

   5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, buggish, buggy, bughouse, barmy, batchy, batpoop

2. (archaic, informal) Tipsy; slightly drunk.
   • "A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."1868, Memorials of a theological college., London: Houlston & Wright, page 9
   • Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated.[1877, Edward Peacock, A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, London: Trubner & Co., page 120, English Dialect Society

   Synonyms:

   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

3. (archaic) Exacting; extortionate; close.
4. (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.1840 March, Hal of the West, “Brilliant run with the Puckeridge hounds”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume XX, number 119, page 383

   Synonyms:

   bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy