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Definitions: Weirdo |
WeirdoNoun1. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric. 2. Someone deranged and possibly dangerous. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Multilingual Slang | Dutch (mafketel). (references) |
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Synonyms: WeirdoSynonyms: crazy (n), creep (n), looney (n), loony (n), schmuck (n), spook (n), weirdie (n), weirdy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unconformity | Noun: {opp. } nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; Adjective: exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You are not a weirdo, you are gifted. (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly. (Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives; writing credit: Tom McLoughlin; Victor Miller) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sex Weirdo (1971) The Weirdo (1989) | |
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| "Weirdo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Weirdo" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 42 | 52,864 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "weirdo": beardo-weirdo. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
weirdo | 47 |
65 buck magnet weirdo | 4 |
sex weirdo | 3 |
by taylor theodore weirdo | 3 |
download pokemon weirdo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "weirdo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njeri i çuditshëm (codger, eccentric, weirdie, weirdy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غريب الأطوار (capricious, crackpot, cranky, curious, eccentric, nutty, odd, off beat, peculiar, queer, weird, whimsical), شخص عجيب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 古怪的人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | curieux (weird). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seltsamer Typ, komischer Kauz (weirdie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | különc (crank, cure, deviant, dorky, eccentric, extravagant, freakish, libertine, oddball, plummet, singular man, spook, weirdie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | strambo (eccentric, odd, queer, rummy, strange, wacky, weirdie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eirdoway vela do mastro da ré (jiggery pokery, weirdie), bicho-de-pé (chigoe, Jigger, weirdie). (various references) чудак (card, codger, faddist, freak, gink, nut, odd card, odd fish, oddball, queer bird, queer card, queer customer, queer fish, rum customer, rum fellow, weirdie, weirdy). (various references) bicho raro (oddball, oddbod, weirdie). (various references) konstig typ. (various references) tuhaf tip (case, curio, curiosity, fruitcake, odd fellow, odd fish, oddity, screwball), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, whimsical), acayip şey. (various references) дивак (case, caution, codger, crotcheteer, eccentric, faddist, maggot, oddball, oddbod, oddity, original, quiz, weirdie, weirdy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "weirdo": weirdoes, weirdos. (additional references) | |
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"Weirdo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Meridor, waird, Weedol, weerd, weide, weido, weierd, weirded, weirdos, weirdy, weired, weirrd, werid, wierd, wierdo, wierdoe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: dower, dowie, rowed, weird, wider, wired, wried. | |
-2 letters: dire, doer, dore, drew, ired, owed, redo, ride, rode, weir, wide, wire, word, wore. | |
-3 letters: dew, die, doe, dor, dow, ire, ode, ore, owe, red, rei, rid, rod, roe, row, wed, woe. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, er, id, od, oe, or, ow, re, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: crowdie, dowdier, downier, dowries, rowdier, rowdies, weirdos, widower, woodier, wordier, worried. | |
+2 letters: crowdies, doweries, dowering, drowsier, firewood, ironweed, lowrider, overwide, overwind, rowdiest, weirdoes, widowers, woodsier, wordiest, worrited. | |
+3 letters: beworried, bowerbird, browridge, cowardice, demiworld, deworming, dowitcher, downriver, drowsiest, eiderdown, fieldwork, firewoods, imbowered, imbrowned, impowered, ironweeds, lowriders, misworded, overwinds, powdering, rewording, rosinweed, rowdiness, shadowier, storewide, swordlike, unworried, windhover, windrowed, wondering, wordiness, worldlier, worldview, worldwide, worriedly, worshiped. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 69 72 64 6F |
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