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screwed, ppl. a.|skruːd|
[f. screw v. + -ed1.]
1. Attached or fastened with inserted screws, or by means of component screws. Also screwed-down, screwed-on.
1770Ann. Reg. 19 The great superiority of the Russians may be attributed..to their charging with screwed bayonets. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick II. ii. 3 You would have seen him..spread them before him on his screwed-down table. 1874Ruskin Fors Clav. IV. xxxix. 53, I was stopped..by a sign over a large shop advising me to buy some ‘screwed boots and shoes’. 1885J. B. Leno Boot & Shoem. xxiii. 189 With a screwed boot..the fastening actually holds for its entire length in the leather. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 831/1 The principal disadvantage in the use of standard screwed soles is the great difficulty met with in removing..an old sole. 1965D. Francis Odds Against iv. 48 He..added an inch to its length in the shape of a screwed-on photo electric light meter.
†2. Strained or forced with or as with a screw. Of wit: Strained to its highest pitch. Obs. rare.
1648J. Beaumont Psyche xi. l, And rais'd her self to that transcendent pitch Of Monstrousness, which never any Fiend With Hell's most scrued wit before could reach.
3. Furnished with an adjustable screw.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 398/1 A single Beak Pellican with a screw,..called a Screw'd tooth Forcer.
4. Twisted round or awry.
a. Of the face: Contorted. Of (the surrounding parts of) the eyes: Contracted. Also with up.
1697Vanbrugh Relapse (1708) Pref., As for the Saints (your thorough-pac'd ones I mean, with screw'd Faces and wry Mouths) I despair of them. 1710Steele Tatler No. 257 ⁋1 Notwithstanding..the Pliancy of the Matter in which the Images are wrought..he did not think it possible for it to be twisted and tortured into so many skrew'd Faces and wry Features. 1728Swift in Intelligencer (1729) No. 8. 70 Thy screw'd-up Front, thy State grimace. 1785Burns Holy Fair x, On this hand sits a chosen swatch, Wi' screw'd up, grace-proud faces. 1901C. Holland Mousmé 15 [His] gravely screwed-up eyes.
†b. Winding, spiral. Obs. rare—1.
1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Invent. §48 A scrued Ascent, instead of Stairs.
c. Twisted into a spiral form.
1855Dickens Dorrit i. xix, He held the usual screwed bit of whity-brown paper in his hand, from which he ever and again unscrewed a spare pinch of snuff.
5. a. Having a helical groove or ridge on its surface. screwed plate = screw-plate (see screw n.1 24). screwed work, the cutting of screws.
1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Invent. §71 (1663) 51 A Key perfectly square, with a Scrue turning within it..and no heavier then the triangle-scrued Key. 1716Halley Lights in Air in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 421 Certain skrewed or striate Particles, adapted to the Pores they are to enter. 1819T. S. Peckston Gas-Lighting 299 Service-pipes..are.. screwed at one end, and furnished with a screwed socket at the other. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 72 [The wood of the apple-tree] is better adapted..for screwed work. 1869C. Knight Mechanician 122 Screwed plates are..screw formers for rods, wire, small bolts [etc.]. 1883F. Campin Details of Mach. xix. 224 The strength of a bolt or any description of screwed end must be determined from its diameter. 1907H. A. Bethell Mod. Guns 9 The screwed breech of the gun is cut away to match.
b. Of a firearm: Furnished with a screwed barrel, i.e. one having a helically grooved bore.
1646Evelyn Diary (1850) I. 240 (Geneva) Excellent screwed guns. 1657Burton's Diary (1828) II. 485 The two persons being apprehended, they were found to have screwed pistols. 1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1271/4 A Case of screw'd barril Pistols. 1680R. H. Milit. Discipl. i. ii. 23 The King commands at present that in every Troop of his Guards be carried eight rifled or screwed Carabins.
6. Partly intoxicated; ‘tight’.
1837J. S. Coyne Queer Subject i. ii. 7 I've been drinking..and I'm thinking, That I'm nearly screw'd outright. 1838Barham Ingol. Leg., Witches Frolic, Alone it stood, while its fellows lay strew'd, Like a four-bottle man in a company screw'd, Not firm on his legs, but by no means subdued. 1859Lang Wand. India 381 Intoxicated! not a bit of it! Screwed, nothing more! 1881F. A. Paley in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 202 We read in Plato of Alcibiades coming to a party somewhat ‘screwed’. 1891Kipling Light that Failed xi, I swear I can see all right when I'm—when I'm moderately screwed.
7. Comb. screwed-surfaced joint Anat. = screw-joint b (see screw n.1 24); screwed-up, (of a condition, situation, etc.) forced (to a certain pitch); excessively intricate; (now esp. with ref. to sense 12 c of the vb.) confused, mixed up; (of a person) in trouble; muddled, upset, neurotic.
1875W. Turner Hum. Anat. i. 68 An important modification of the ginglymus is the screwed-surfaced joint. 1907M. A. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt & Mr. Anstruther lxxiv. 372, I don't love you..it makes me tired just to think..of the bother of it, of the perpetual screwed-up condition of mind and body to a pitch above the normal. 1924F. Hopman tr. Huizinga's Waning of Middle Ages viii. 99 The whole genre of Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles..implies, no less than the screwed-up system of courtly love, an attempt to substitute for reality the dream of a happier life. 1943Yank 26 Nov. 4/3 Oh, Lord, he thought, whatever I do, I'm a screwed-up sheep. 1967L. Forrester Girl called Fathom xiii. 158 The Capitán is correct to call this ‘a screwed up situation’. 1970E. Pace Saberlegs xvi. 150 She has every right to be screwed up—or simply to be lonely. 1974E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xviii. 308, I grew up on army bases all over the world. I'm one of your typical screwed-up army brats, I guess. 1980Times 22 Mar. 5/5 Modern society is obsessed with romanticizing ancient societies... This total fantasy about them being basically modern scientists is really screwed up.
▸ slang (orig. U.S.). a. In a difficult or hopeless situation; ruined, broken. Cf. fucked adj. 1.
1955J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xxiv. 278 When things are bad you keep telling yourself they can't get worse. Then they get worse. And stay that way until you're so weary and screwed you can't even worry anymore. 1972S. Terkel Working ii. 77 If you do what they tell you, you're screwed. 1981J. Rebeta-Burditt Triplets 204 You're saying that the system is so screwed, it can't possibly work? 1989T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxvii. 579 If this guy had initialized the disk, we'd be screwed, but he just swiped a magnet around. 1997Guardian 5 Mar. (Society suppl.) 5/3 All the pollsters had different ways of saying that the Tories—are screwed. Down the jacksy. Finished. 2005Atlantic Monthly Apr. 70 At that point I'm totally screwed—I have nobody who's got my back, and everybody's out to get me.
b. Exhibiting or characterized by emotional or mental instability; neurotic, disturbed. Cf. screwed-up adj. at 7 fucked adj. 3.
1984J. Hughes Breakfast Club (final draft screenplay) 41 John. You like your old man better than your mother? (Claire thinks.) Claire. Actually, they're both screwed. 1989S. E. Hatty in J. Hanmer et al. Women, Policing, & Male Violence iv. 80 The women are really screwed in the head. 1990W. Wasserstein Bachelor Girls 147, I can't help feeling that some members of that 1969 junior class at Mount Holyoke who once believed that suburbia was screwed now secretly believe that they were, too. 2006C. N. Douglas Cat in Quicksilver Caper xliv. 272 Molina no longer qualified. Too old. Too wired. Too seriously screwed. |