screw you
See also: screw-you
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- screw-you (noun sense only)
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screw, you.
- 2020, David Gomadza, EVELINA: The Alpha:
- I can screw you in front of everyone. I don't care, we have a thing going on, you know. I love you,” she said.
Interjection
[edit]- (slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) less offensive version of fuck you.
- You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you.
- Screw you—go annoy someone else!
- Screw you! You think you can come to my house dressed like a slob?
- 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents[1]:
- During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
- 2000, Todd Strasser, Give a boy a Gun:
- Well, screw you. Screw all of you. I hope this letter is like a knife in your hearts. You ruined my life. All I've done is pay you back in kind.
Synonyms
[edit]Noun
[edit]screw you (plural screw yous)
- An act of defiance and contempt.
- 1997, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 150-153:
- You know what it is about that game, the thing that id Software says isn't worth their time (which I personally believe is a big screw you to us gamers),
- 2011, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Tim Waggoner, Ghost Trackers, →ISBN, page 7:
- Partly as a 'screw you' to all the people who treated me so badly, to be honest. Show them the ugly duckling has morphed into a swan, that kind of thing.
- 2017, Nina Levine, Hyde's Absolution:
- Well, how about we talk about the way you disrespected me for the last fourteen years by ignoring me? That kinda felt like a big screw you from you to me.”
Translations
[edit]a slightly politer version of "fuck you"
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