screwy

Etymology
. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.

Adjective

 * 1)  Crazy; silly; ridiculous
 * 2)  Tipsy; slightly drunk.
 * 3)  Exacting; extortionate; close.
 * 4)  Worthless.
 * 1)  Tipsy; slightly drunk.
 * 2)  Exacting; extortionate; close.
 * 3)  Worthless.
 * 1)  Exacting; extortionate; close.
 * 2)  Worthless.
 * 1)  Worthless.

Quotations

 * 1840, Hal of the West. Brilliant run with the Puckeridge hounds. The Sporting Magazine. March, 1840. Vol XX, No 119. p383
 * " 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."
 * 1877, Edward Peacock, English Dialect Society. A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham. London: Trubner & Co. 1877. p120
 * "Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated."