screwedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -uːd

形容詞

screwed (comparative more screwed, superlative most screwed)

1. (slang, mildly vulgar) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.

   They found out about our betrayal, so now we're screwed.

2. (slang, British, dated) Intoxicated.
   • 1889, Belgravia, volume 70, page 15:

     " […] Did you know that my husband came home intoxicated?"
     Mrs. Brown laughed.
     "Oh, not so bad as that, surely! Only a little 'screwed.' George was 'quisby,' too. But then its Christmas, you know."

   • 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, pages 217–218:

     Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed. They would not wish for worlds that any of Mary Jane's pupils should see him under the influence; […]

使用する際の注意点

• Often employed as a bowdlerization, or substitution, for fucked.

使用する際の注意点

Because the sexual act as a metaphor for domination is a frequent association for the term 'screwed', it is potentially offensive in polite circles.

同意語

• (beset, vulgar): fucked, dicked, shagged (British); see also Thesaurus:in trouble
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk

派生語

• screwed and chopped
• screwed, blued and tattooed / screwed, glued and tattooed
• screwedness

関連する語

• screw over

参考

• screwed up

動詞

screwed

1. simple past and past participle of screw

   He screwed the boards together tightly.

   I got screwed at the swap meet yesterday.

   • 1641, Richard Chambers (merchant), quoted in Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise, Part II: The After-Growth of the Constitution, H.O. Houghton & Company (1889), p. 274,

     […] merchants are in no part of the world so screwed as in England. In Turkey, they have more encouragement.

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アナグラム

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