awry, amiss(p), haywire, wrong
(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”
balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”
haywire
(noun) wire for tying up bales of hay
Source: WordNet® 3.1
haywire (plural haywires)
Wire used to bind bales of hay.
• baler twine
haywire (comparative more haywire, superlative most haywire)
Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).
Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with the verb "go".
• It was working fine until it went haywire and wouldn't stop printing blank sheets.
• Those kids go haywire when they don't get what they want.
Source: Wiktionary
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
