screwfaced

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English

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Etymology

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From screwface +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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screwfaced (comparative more screwfaced, superlative most screwfaced)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Having a screwface (an angry facial expression); angry, frustrated.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:angry
    • 2017 September 7, David Phinn, “I am a messenger and I ride”, in NOW[1], Toronto, Ont.: NOW Communications Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-13:
      So why do so many bike messengers look so screwfaced and vexed, as if road rage and frustration were their permanent riding companions?

Verb

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screwfaced

  1. simple past and past participle of screwface

Further reading

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  • screwfaced”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.