haywiren.adj.

Etymology: < hay n.¹ + wire n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhaywire.

A. n.

Wire for binding bales of hay, straw, etc. North American.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > binder > material to bind with

bandc1325

hay-banda1642

binding-twine1890

haywire1917

1917 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 14 Sept. 5351/2 But the ‘hay wire’ did not hold.

1921 Outing Dec. 101/1 You can't run a logging camp without snuff and hay wire.

1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xii. 103 A thick mesh of hay wire.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street v. 41 The tenants bought kindling wood in little bundles... These neat little sticks had been dipped in resin at one end, and were bound with haywire.

B. adj.

1. Poorly equipped, roughly contrived, inefficient, esp. hay-wire outfit (from the practice of using hay-wire for makeshift repairs). Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily > clumsily put together

cloutedc1380

bodged1519

botched1537

tinkerly?1576

tinker-like1596

cobbled1798

botchy1843

bodgie1905

haywire1905

bodgied1974

bodgied-up1988

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 39 Hay wire outfit, a contemptuous term for loggers with poor logging equipment.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 207 A haywire outfit is something that is all tied and patched together.

1934 Notes & Queries 166 13/1 I first heard ‘hay~wire’ in the summer of 1929, when I was living in northern New York State. There is also the expression ‘haywire outfit’, a job on which poor living accommodations are provided for the workers. Also an inefficient factory or shop.

1959 Listener 26 Feb. 388/2 A haywire, unpredictable, one-man business.

1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 145 The..irritating, because man-made, chaos attendant on the intrusion of a haywire railroad into the ordered life of the frontier now lay behind them.

a. Of a person, circumstances, etc.: in an emotional state, tangled, involved, confused, crazy. colloquial (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion

woodc900

reighOE

mada1350

furiousc1374

raginga1425

savagea1450

rageous1486

frenetic?c1550

frantic1561

frenetical1588

impotent1596

transported1600

violent1601

turbulent1609

dementing1729

enfrenzied1823

wild1868

haywire1934

wigged-out1977

1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra vii. 226 A married man..and absolutely haywire on the subject of another woman.

1939 W. Faulkner Wild Palms 223 Now you can eat something. Or do you think that will send you haywire again?

1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) xiv. 330 Everything seems so haywire, lately.

1955 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman viii. 89 The time element's all haywire.

b. spec. in to go haywire, to go wrong; to become excited or distracted, to become mentally unbalanced. colloquial (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > be affected with violent emotion [verb (intransitive)]

ragea1400

to blow one's top1928

to go haywire1929

to pop (also blow) one's cork1938

to flip one's lid (also wig)1950

wig1955

to go ballistic1981

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)]

dwelec900

wedec900

awedeeOE

starea1275

braidc1275

ravea1325

to be out of mindc1325

woodc1374

to lose one's mindc1380

madc1384

forgetc1385

to go out of one's minda1398

to wede (out) of, but wita1400

foolc1400

to go (also fall, run) mada1450

forcene1490

ragec1515

waltc1540

maddle?c1550

to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565

pass of wita1616

to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682

madden1704

to go (also be) off at the nail1721

distract1768

craze1818

to get a rat1890

to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896

(to have) bats in the belfryc1901

to have straws in one's hair1923

to take the bats1927

to go haywire1929

to go mental1930

to go troppo1941

to come apart1954

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > go wrong

mistimeOE

to come evil to pass1481

tread awry1524

mischance1552

to go wrong1592

pall1604

to go haywire1929

snafu1943

1929 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. When some element in the recording system becomes defective it is said to have gone haywire.

1933 Daily Express 16 Nov. 6/4 Haywire, epithet applied currently in U.S. to man of confused ideas... New York's newly elect mayor La Guardia is said by his enemies to have gone all haywire.

1936 M. Allingham Flowers for Judge i. 15 I suppose some wives would have gone haywire by this time.

1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) vii. 103 Some nice homicidal maniac..going all haywire.

1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 88 If the Governor Unit should go haywire then you merely pull the little switch down to the fixed position and all is well.

1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags 42 ‘If anyone so much as mentions concentration camps again,’ said Ambrose Silk, ‘I shall go frankly haywire.’

1945 Times 28 May 2/1 The compasses acted normally, but over the magnetic pole, where the weather was more favourable, they ‘went haywire’.

1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael iii. i. 149 They go haywire because they haven't had any love affair at all.

1962 Catholic Herald 26 Oct. 1/5 Architecture has gone haywire. Music is without harmony.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xii. 214 Everything..going haywire at the same time.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	haywire
释义	haywiren.adj. Etymology: < hay n.¹ + wire n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhaywire. A. n. Wire for binding bales of hay, straw, etc. North American. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > binder > material to bind with bandc1325 hay-banda1642 binding-twine1890 haywire1917 1917 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 14 Sept. 5351/2 But the ‘hay wire’ did not hold. 1921 Outing Dec. 101/1 You can't run a logging camp without snuff and hay wire. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xii. 103 A thick mesh of hay wire. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street v. 41 The tenants bought kindling wood in little bundles... These neat little sticks had been dipped in resin at one end, and were bound with haywire. B. adj. 1. Poorly equipped, roughly contrived, inefficient, esp. hay-wire outfit (from the practice of using hay-wire for makeshift repairs). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily > clumsily put together cloutedc1380 bodged1519 botched1537 tinkerly?1576 tinker-like1596 cobbled1798 botchy1843 bodgie1905 haywire1905 bodgied1974 bodgied-up1988 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 39 Hay wire outfit, a contemptuous term for loggers with poor logging equipment. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 207 A haywire outfit is something that is all tied and patched together. 1934 Notes & Queries 166 13/1 I first heard ‘hay~wire’ in the summer of 1929, when I was living in northern New York State. There is also the expression ‘haywire outfit’, a job on which poor living accommodations are provided for the workers. Also an inefficient factory or shop. 1959 Listener 26 Feb. 388/2 A haywire, unpredictable, one-man business. 1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 145 The..irritating, because man-made, chaos attendant on the intrusion of a haywire railroad into the ordered life of the frontier now lay behind them. 2. a. Of a person, circumstances, etc.: in an emotional state, tangled, involved, confused, crazy. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion woodc900 reighOE mada1350 furiousc1374 raginga1425 savagea1450 rageous1486 frenetic?c1550 frantic1561 frenetical1588 impotent1596 transported1600 violent1601 turbulent1609 dementing1729 enfrenzied1823 wild1868 haywire1934 wigged-out1977 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra vii. 226 A married man..and absolutely haywire on the subject of another woman. 1939 W. Faulkner Wild Palms 223 Now you can eat something. Or do you think that will send you haywire again? 1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) xiv. 330 Everything seems so haywire, lately. 1955 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman viii. 89 The time element's all haywire. b. spec. in to go haywire, to go wrong; to become excited or distracted, to become mentally unbalanced. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > be affected with violent emotion [verb (intransitive)] ragea1400 to blow one's top1928 to go haywire1929 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to flip one's lid (also wig)1950 wig1955 to go ballistic1981 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 wedec900 awedeeOE starea1275 braidc1275 ravea1325 to be out of mindc1325 woodc1374 to lose one's mindc1380 madc1384 forgetc1385 to go out of one's minda1398 to wede (out) of, but wita1400 foolc1400 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 forcene1490 ragec1515 waltc1540 maddle?c1550 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565 pass of wita1616 to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682 madden1704 to go (also be) off at the nail1721 distract1768 craze1818 to get a rat1890 to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 to go haywire1929 to go mental1930 to go troppo1941 to come apart1954 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > go wrong mistimeOE to come evil to pass1481 tread awry1524 mischance1552 to go wrong1592 pall1604 to go haywire1929 snafu1943 1929 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. When some element in the recording system becomes defective it is said to have gone haywire. 1933 Daily Express 16 Nov. 6/4 Haywire, epithet applied currently in U.S. to man of confused ideas... New York's newly elect mayor La Guardia is said by his enemies to have gone all haywire. 1936 M. Allingham Flowers for Judge i. 15 I suppose some wives would have gone haywire by this time. 1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) vii. 103 Some nice homicidal maniac..going all haywire. 1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 88 If the Governor Unit should go haywire then you merely pull the little switch down to the fixed position and all is well. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags 42 ‘If anyone so much as mentions concentration camps again,’ said Ambrose Silk, ‘I shall go frankly haywire.’ 1945 Times 28 May 2/1 The compasses acted normally, but over the magnetic pole, where the weather was more favourable, they ‘went haywire’. 1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael iii. i. 149 They go haywire because they haven't had any love affair at all. 1962 Catholic Herald 26 Oct. 1/5 Architecture has gone haywire. Music is without harmony. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xii. 214 Everything..going haywire at the same time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1905
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