screwn

S1C3R1E1W4N1

A form of screw — A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verb
  1. 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 11
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    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 194

    An 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 5

    Then 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 298

    Arabella 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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