A dated British colloquial (and humorous) pronunciation-based corruption of rheumatism — the painful joint condition. Screwmatics captures the way older working-class British English speakers sometimes pronounced rheumatism, and the screw part even implies the screwing, grinding pain of the condition. It's affectionate, slightly comedic, and now mostly found in period fiction and historical dialect writing.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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"Me screwmatics are playing up something awful in this cold," he muttered, rubbing his knees.
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(British, colloquial, dated) Rheumatism.
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