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
Vartolomej-Serbian (Rare)
Stefanus-Dutch
Yoram-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Xanthippi-Greek
Shelah-Biblical
Marjo (1)MAHR-yoFinnish, Dutch