screw you
See also: screw-you
English
Alternative forms
- screw-you (noun sense only)
Interjection
- (slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) A 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?
Synonyms
Noun
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.”
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Translations
a slightly politer version of "fuck you"
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