Haywire

Definition: Haywire

Haywire

Adjective

1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

2. Not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "the telephone is out of order"; "what's the matter with your vacuum cleaner?"; "something is wrong with the engine".

Noun

1. Wire for tying up bales of hay.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Haywire

The system's gone haywire Dining room window (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy)

Hotel Haywire (1937)

Haywire (1999)

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

Books

• Haywire (reference)

• Haywire a Novel of Suspense (reference)

• Haywire rainbow : poems (reference)

• Ribbons and Haywire (reference)

• Robert Rauschenberg: Haywire (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Expression using "haywire": go haywire. Additional references.

Albanian

tel për lidhje dengjesh bari, i trazuar (agog, boisterous, distempered, disturbed, flurried, lumpy, mixed, on edge, rough, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, vexed), i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned, unsound), i ngatërruar (embarrassing, embroiled, entangled, immersed, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, muddy, tangly, tricky, woozy), i çoroditur (addle-brained, addle-pated, anile, erratic, perverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скърпен (patchy), тел за привързване на бали сено, объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), небрежно направен, накриво (acock, askew, aslant, asquint, athwart, awry, criss cross), повреден (damaged, defective, faulty, injured, out of order, out of whack, wrong), полудял (crazy, frenzied, gone mad, loco, mad, possessed). (various references)

Czech

rozbitý (bloody, broken, broken down, bumpy, bust, out of action, smashed), pomatený (deranged, distempered, moonstruck, moony, out of one's mind, paranoid, perplexed, scatter-brained, unbalanced). (various references)

Farsi 

مغشوش , ساخته شده ازروی عجله , بلااستفاده (Useless), بدساخته شده . (various references)

French

vétuste, détraqué. (various references)

German

baufällig (decayed, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, in a state of disrepair, lapsed, ramshackle, rickety, tumble down, tumbledown). (various references)

Greek 

σύρμα για δέσιμο χόρτου, άτακτοσ (anomalous, fractious, irregular, mischievous, naughty, snatchy, straggly, tough, unruly), τρελόσ (crack-brained, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, distraught, lunatical, mad, madding, screw-ball). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבול�'ן (snafu). (various references)

Hungarian

zavarosan összekuszált, szénakötöző huzal. (various references)

Italian

pericolante (dilapidated, ramshackle, unsafe), disordinato; in confusione, confuso (abashed, addled, confounded, confused, dazed, fuzzy, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly), agitato (agitated, fussy, hectic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, overwrought, restive, restless, troubled, turbulent, upset, wild), aggrovigliato. (various references)

Pig Latin

aywirehay.(various references)

Portuguese

qualquer coisa confusa, pessoa hist�rica, arame para enfardar. (various references)

Russian 

расшатанный (cranky, rattletrap, rickety, unstrung), вязальная проволока, непрочный (built on sand, flimsy, frail, groggy, insubstantial, perishable, rotten, sleazy, unsubstantial), наскоро сколоченный, беспорядочный (chaotic, disorderly, erratic, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, inordinate, messy, pell mell, rambling, random, rough and tumble, shambolic, topsy turvy, tumultuary, tumultuous, undigested, unregulated, upside down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u neredu (desultory, mess, messy, out of order), žica za uvezivanje sena. (various references)

Spanish

loco (amok, amuck, barmy, bonkers, bugs, crack-brained, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, dunce, fogey, half wit, hectic, idiot, jenny ass, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, mad, madman, nutty, out of one's mind, round the bend, up the pole, wall eyed, wet, whacky, wild, zany), estropeado (blown, broken, broken down, crumpled, damaged, ruined, shop-soiled, shopworn, spoiled, spoilt, torn), en desorden (higgledy-piggledy, pell mell, pellmell, topsyturvy, tousled, untidy), desorientado (disorientated, lost), desmantelado (dilapidated, ramshackle), descompuesto (disarrangement, out of order, trot), alambre para atar el heno. (various references)

Swedish

oberäknelig (erratic, flighty, incalculable, irrational, unsteady, vertiginous). (various references)

Thai

ลว�"ที่ใช้มั�"ฟาง, ซึ่งทำงานผิ�"ปกติ. (various references)

Turkish

sapıtmış, karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, chaotic, confused, disheveled, dishevelled, embroiled, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly burly, in complete disorder, intricate, mess, messy, mussy, out of order, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, snafu), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, excursive, fitful, freehand, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, rambling, snatchy, snuffy, unequal, unkempt, unsteady, untidy), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), balya bağlama teli, üşütük. (various references)

Ukrainian

розхитаний (crank, cranky, doddered, lax, rattletrap, rickety), в'язальний дріт, нашвидку збитий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mất bình tĩnh (discomposedly), cái mắc míu bối rối. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "haywire": haywires. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Haywire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hawera, hawier, hawir, hawiyes, haywired, hytime. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hairy, hayer, weary.

-3 letters: aery, airy, awry, eyra, hair, hare, hear, heir, hire, rhea, wair, ware, wary, wear, weir, whey, whir, wire, wiry, yare, yeah, year.

-4 letters: air, are, awe, aye, ear, era, hae, haw, hay, her, hew, hey, hie, ire, rah, raw, ray, rei, ria, rya, rye, wae, war, way, wha, why.

+1 letter: haywires.

+5 letters: praiseworthy, superhighway.