different between screwball vs knuckler

English

Etymology

screw +? ball

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?u?b??l/

Noun

screwball (plural screwballs)

1. (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.

   The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.

2. (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.

   I will not listen to this screwball any longer.

Translations

Adjective

screwball (comparative more screwball, superlative most screwball)

1. (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
   • 2013, Tom Shone, Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last? (in The Guardian, 11 January 2013)[1]

     Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.

Derived terms

• screwball comedy

English

Etymology

knuckle +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

knuckler (plural knucklers)

1. (baseball slang) A knuckleball.
   • 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 2,

     Fowler flung a stiff-wrist knuckler that hung in the air without spin before it took a sudden dip, but Roy scooped it up with the stick and lifted it twenty rows up into the center field stands.

See also

• curveball
• slider
• fastball
• cut fastball
• two-seam fastball
• split-finger fastball
• sinker
• screwball

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