A SCREW LOOSE

Definition: A SCREW LOOSE

A SCREW LOOSE

1. Something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Insanity

Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain).

My uncle says you've got a screw loose. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "A SCREW LOOSE": have a screw loose ♦ having a screw loose ♦ he has got a screw loose. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

побъркан (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, cockeyed, crank, crazy, cuckoo, demented, having a screw loose, light-head, light-headed, mental, moonstruck, nutty, touched). (various references)

Czech

má o koleèko víc (he has got a screw loose, he's as mad as a march hare). (various references)

Finnish

on ruuvi löyhällä (has a screw loose), on päässään ruuvi irti (has a screw loose). (various references)

Hungarian

nincs ki mind a négy kereke (have a screw loose), hiányzik egy kereke (cracked in the filbert, have a screw loose), őrült ötletei vannak (have a screw loose). (various references)

Pig Latin

aay ewscray ooselay.(various references)

Turkish

tahtası eksik (a button short, have a screw loose), kafadan çatlak (barmy, have a screw loose, nutty, off one's onion). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lowercases.

-2 letters: casserole, escaroles, lowercase.

-3 letters: aerosols, careless, colessor, coreless, creosols, crewless, escarole, escolars, lacrosse, rescales, roseolas, sclerose, scowlers, secalose, solacers.

-4 letters: acerose, aerosol, areoles, aweless, carless, caseose, cereals, claroes, classer, clawers, closers, coalers, coolers, creases, creoles, creosol, cresols, crewels, earless, escolar, escrows, lassoer, leasers, oarless, oracles, recoals, relaces, resales, rescale, reseals, resoles, roscoes, roseola, scalers, sclerae, scleras, scowler, scrawls, sealers, serosae, serosal, solacer, solaces, sowcars, warless, warsles, weasels, woolers, wrassle.

-5 letters: across, areole, awless, caress, carles, carols, carses, ceases, ceorls, cereal, claros, clawer, clears, closer, closes, coaler, coarse, colors, cooees, cooers, cooler, corals, corses, cowers, crases, crawls, crease, creels, creole, cresol, crewel, crosse, easels, erases, eroses, escars, escrow, lacers, larees, lasers, leaser, leases, lesser, lessor, locoes, looser, looses, losers, lowers, ocreae, oracle, rassle, reales, recess, recoal, relace, resale, resaws, reseal, resews, resole, resows, rooses, roscoe, rowels, sarees, sawers, scaler, scales, scares, sclera, scores, scowls, scrawl, screes, screws, sealer, seesaw, seracs, serosa, serows, sewars, sewers, slower, socles, solace, sorels, sowars, sowcar, sowers, swales, swears, walers, warsle, weasel, wooers, wooler, worses, wrasse.

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