haywire
suomi-englanti sanakirjahaywire englannista suomeksi
sekaisin
metallilanka, paalauslanka
sekaisin oleva
Substantiivi
haywire englanniksi
{{quote-journal|en|date=1886-05-06|author=W. A. Huffman Implement Company|title=Superior Lawn Mowers!|newspaper=Fort Worth Daily Gazette|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064205/1886-05-06/ed-1/seq-7/date1=1836&sort=date&date2=1922&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=11&words=HAYWIRE&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=haywire&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|page=7
Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).
Behaviorally erratic or uncontrollable, 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.''
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{{quote-book|en|year=1928|author=Horace Marden Albright; Frank J. Taylor|title="Oh, Ranger!": A Book about the National Parks|chapter=1|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SmOmAAAAIAAJ&q=haywirev=snippet&q=haywire&f=false|page=1
(quote-book)|year=2014|author=Elizabeth Kolbert|publisher=Picador|ISBN=9781250062185|passage=Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium.|page=103