screwy

adj

Etymology: From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.

1. Crazy; silly; ridiculous

   “That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!”

   “Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?”

2. Tipsy; slightly drunk.

   “"A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday."”

   “Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated.”

3. Exacting; extortionate; close.
4. Worthless.

   “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.”