screw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: screws
form: screwing
form: screwed
form: screwed
form: screwn
Etymology: From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.
Senses: synonyms: word: screw up
word: accouple
word: affix
word: assemble
word: associate
word: attach
word: bewed
word: bind
word: clasp
word: clinch
word: combine
word: conglomerate
word: conglutinate
word: conjoin
word: connect
word: construct
word: couple
word: entwine
word: fay
word: fix
word: graft
word: hitch
word: hook
word: inosculate
word: interlink
word: join
word: joint
word: knit
word: knot
word: link
word: marry
word: piece together
word: piecen
word: pinion
word: put together
word: splice
word: unite
word: wed
word: yoke
glosses: To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
examples: text: Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.
ref: 1890, Albert G. Porter, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana:
text: He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: "Maybe they weren't screwing, my dear. They were just hanging out, you know." "They were screwing, my dear."
ref: 2014, The Visitors:
synonyms: word: fuck
word: root
word: shag
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
synonyms: word: fuck
word: screw over
glosses: To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
examples: text: […] our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture:
text: It is not surprising that the landowner strove to screw his tenants.
ref: 1884, Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages:
glosses: To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
examples: text: He screwed his face into a hardened smile.
ref: 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, act 2, scene 1:
text: I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Land That Time Forgot:
synonyms: twist
writhe
glosses: To contort.
examples: text: The visitors could have added an instant second, but Rooney screwed an ugly attempt high into Hennessey's arms after Berbatov cleverly found the unmarked England striker.
ref: 2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: To screw back.
glosses: To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
examples: text: If you don't like it, fuckin' screw! It's Shit Ass Pet Fuckers. That's the way it's going to be.
ref: c. 2009, Louis CK, Shit Ass Pet Fuckers:
glosses: To leave; to go away; to scram.
examples: text: Screw those jerks, and screw their stupid rules!
synonyms: bugger
eff
to hell with
glosses: Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
examples: text: Screw the homework for now.
text: Screw him, let's run.
synonyms: word: fuck
word: forget
word: sack
glosses: To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
Derived terms: chopped and screwed
get screwed
go screw yourself
have one's head screwed on
have one's head screwed on right
have one's head screwed on straight
have one's head screwed on the right way
I screw you not
screw about
screw all
screw around
screw away
screwball
screwed, blued and tattooed
screw in
screw-in
screw it
screw off
screw over
screwtape
screwtaping
screw the pooch
screw this
screw this for a game of soldiers
screw this for a lark
screw up
screw up one's courage
screw with
screwy
screw you
would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on