"weirdo" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈwɪə.dəʊ/ [UK], /ˈwɪəɹ.doʊ/ [US] Audio: en-us-weirdo.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ Etymology: From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”). First attested in the early 1950s, in American English. The similar word weirdie (“odd, unconventional person”) is attested from earlier, in 1887; in Scottish English. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|weird|o|t2=person with characteristic}} weird + -o (“person with characteristic”), {{etydate|early 1950s}} First attested in the early 1950s Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} weirdo (not comparable)
  1. Weird. Tags: not-comparable
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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɪə.dəʊ/ [UK], /ˈwɪəɹ.doʊ/ [US] Audio: en-us-weirdo.ogg [US] Forms: weirdoes [plural], weirdos [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ Etymology: From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”). First attested in the early 1950s, in American English. The similar word weirdie (“odd, unconventional person”) is attested from earlier, in 1887; in Scottish English. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|weird|o|t2=person with characteristic}} weird + -o (“person with characteristic”), {{etydate|early 1950s}} First attested in the early 1950s Head templates: {{en-noun|es|s}} weirdo (plural weirdoes or weirdos)
  1. (informal, chiefly derogatory) A strange, odd, eccentric person. Tags: derogatory, informal Synonyms (strange person): strange person Translations (strange person): чудак (čudak) [masculine] (Bulgarian), особняк (osobnjak) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 騎呢怪 /骑呢怪 (ke⁴ le⁴ gwaai³) (Chinese Cantonese), 怪人 (guàirén) (Chinese Mandarin), podivín [masculine] (Czech), härö (Finnish), hurluberlu (French), loufoque (French), zarbi (French), Exzentriker [masculine] (German), Spinner [masculine] (German), παράξενος (paráxenos) [masculine] (Greek), ανώμαλος (anómalos) [masculine] (Greek), különc (Hungarian), furðufugl [masculine] (Icelandic), cudakka (Ingrian), strambo (Italian), 変な人 (hen na hito) (Japanese), чу́дак (čúdak) [masculine] (Macedonian), porowairangi (Māori), eletewş (Northern Kurdish), raring [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dziwak [masculine] (Polish), cudak [masculine] (Polish), esquisito [masculine] (Portuguese), esquisitoide [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), чуда́к (čudák) (Russian), baoghal [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), чудак [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), čudak [Latin] (Serbo-Croatian), excéntrico [masculine] (Spanish), bicho raro [masculine] (Spanish), rarito [masculine] (Spanish), anormal [feminine, masculine] (Spanish)
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  2. (informal, chiefly derogatory) An insane, possibly dangerous person. Tags: derogatory, informal Synonyms (insane person): mad person
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: geardo, queerdo, Weirdo Related terms: oddball, wingnut

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town:",
          "text": "What's going on in this weirdo town?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 December 8, Neal McCluskey, “Here’s The Trump Administration’s Weirdo Plan For The Student Aid Crisis”, in The National Interest:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Weird."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Weird",
          "weird#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪə.dəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪəɹ.doʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-weirdo.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-weirdo.ogg/En-us-weirdo.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-weirdo.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "weirdo"
}

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