screwball



screwball

1. n. an eccentric person; a clown or a dunce. (Also a rude term of address.) Tom is such a screwball!
2. n. [in baseball] a (pitched) ball that does not travel in a straight line. Jim threw another screwball, but somehow the batter hit it.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Triinu-Estonian
NÁNdor-Hungarian
&Aelig;&Eth;Elm&Aelig;R-Anglo-Saxon
Milenamee-LE-nah (Italian)Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Italian
Atanase-Romanian
Evron-Yiddish