单词 | to screw around |
释义 | > as lemmasto screw around to screw around colloquial (originally U.S. slang). extracted from screwv. 1. a. intransitive. To mess about, fool around. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 1935 H. McCoy They shoot Horses, don't They? iii. 19 Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 186/2 Screw around,..to clown and play the fool, paying scant attention to business. ‘Don't you screw around when you're hustling (stealing) with me.’ 1974 Times 1 Apr. 6/8 All right—I am going to get him over because I am not going to screw around with this thing. 1991 Dispatch (Gilroy, Calif.) 26 July b4/3 It's like sitting in the back of the class with the guys who would screw around and get you in trouble. 2000 E. Garcia Anonymous Rex ii. 19 No backing out on orders, no screwing around with the cops...Are we on the same page here? b. transitive. To mess about with; to waste (a person's) time; to inconvenience, make trouble for. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)] trouble1516 misease1530 incommodatea1575 inconveniencea1656 run1697 incommode1702 disannul1794 disconvenience1821 to put about1825 to put out1851 to jerk around1877 to bugger about1921 to dick around1944 to fuck around1955 to bugger around1961 to screw around1967 to fuck about1975 to cock around1990 to dick about1996 to cock about2009 1967 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 10 Aug. 1/3 Tom knows..how the white society is screwing him around. 1981 Chicago Heights Star 16 Aug. (Inside section) 6/1 Becker and Fagen love screwing the press around and doing the unexpected. 1992 Santa Fe (New Mexico) Reporter 9 Dec. 21/5 People have screwed me around in business because I'm too trusting. 2014 R. F. Coleman Hollow Girl xxix. 170 I had to..make sure they knew that I hadn't been screwing them around. 2. intransitive. To have many different sexual partners; to sleep around. Cf. sense 7. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be promiscuous to play legerdeheel1605 to put it about1817 to do the (also a) naughty1902 to fool around1923 sleep1928 to play around1929 alleycat1937 to screw around1939 bed-hop1943 tom1950 horse1953 to whore it up1956 swing1964 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath ii. 14 Goin' all over the world drinkin' and raisin' hell and screwin' around. 1964 New Statesman 17 Apr. 610/3 He drinks.., screws around, lives in debt, cannot get his work published. 1972 D. S. Viscott Making of Psychiatrist iii. 43 Her husband is screwing around and she feels abandoned. 1990 S. Grafton G is for Gumshoe (1991) iii. 27 She'd decided they should have an ‘open marriage’, which he figured was a euphemism for her screwing around on him. 2000 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 18 June 81/3 Does he want to screw around? If he does, can the other partner accommodate that? < as lemmas |
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