ˈskrüē, -üi adjective
( -er/-est )
1. Britain : somewhat intoxicated
2. : hard and exacting in selling or renting : niggardly , mean
3. : involuted like a screw : winding , spiral
a big-eared head with glasses and screwy hair — Josephine Johnson
4.
a. : crazily absurd, eccentric, or unusual : oddly and often disturbingly different and unfamiliar
unusual chords and odd slips in the tune and screwy forms — Leonard Bernstein
something is haywire, screwy , and badly disrupted — F.A.Johnson
b. : crazy , insane
she must have been screwy — Leslie Charteris