SCREWBALLS Synonyms

• a bad-tempered person

• a whimsically eccentric person

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

• a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• travel along a zigzag path

• start by cranking

• rotate with a crank

• fasten with a crank

• bend into the shape of a crank

• someone deranged and possibly dangerous

• affected with madness or insanity

• foolish; totally unsound

• possessed by inordinate excitement

• bizarre or fantastic

• intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

• a whimsically eccentric person

• a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on

• foolish; totally unsound

• insufficiently cooked

• Egyptian goddess of the sky

• usually large hard-shelled seed

• a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

• half the width of an em

• a whimsically eccentric person

• someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

• one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

• gather nuts

• foolish; totally unsound

• a whimsically eccentric person