Meanings
- nonstandardparticiplepastrarepast participle of screw
The American had screwn up his nose for so many years and kept everyone at a distance; now his son thinks he can smart us too!
1989, Cristian Teodorescu, “The Heritage”, in Romanian Review, 43rd year, numbers 1–6, Bucharest: Europolis Publishing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115 more examples
And Bronwyn’s bed broke down. (Like in the funny part of a pantomime!) Perhaps its component parts had never really been screwn together.
1917, G[ladys] B[ronwyn] Stern, Grand Chain, London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd. […], →OCLC, page 194An inspection of the ruins disclosed that as in other recent fires of a suspicious origin the top of a disused gas main had been screwn free, alowing^([sic]) gas to escape
1923 August 27, “Another Church Destroyed by Fire Maniac: Historic Mission Building in Ballarat”, in Evening News, number 4719, Rockhampton, Qld., →OCLC, page 3, column 5Then the lining tubes are taken out through the lower end of the coring tube, being pushed from the top end by means of iron tubes successively screwn together.
1947, B[örje] Kullenberg, The Piston Core Sampler (Svenska hydrografisk-biologiska kommissionens skrifter; 3rd series, volume 1, number 2), Gothenburg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, →OCLC, page 37“You had screwn, huh? You didn’t get hurt too much, did you?” / “You make it sound like a traffic accident.” / “First time sonofabitch hurts like a bastard.” / “Yes.” / “Now you’re scared you’re gonna have a kid?”
1977 January, Joyce MacIver [pseudonym; Georgette Scott], “Part Three: 1929”, in Mercy, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 298Arabella also testified that Charleston claimed that since ‘[another man] had screwn me … [and] I might as well do it with him as to do it with another fellow [and] said if I would he would give me a dollar bill.’
2010, Barrington Walker, “Rape, Sex, and the Power of Dominant Rape Narratives”, in Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario’s Criminal Courts, 1858–1958 (Canadian Social History), Toronto, Ont.: […] [F]or The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 161
Origin
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