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weirdo

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪə.dəʊ/

The English word “weirdo” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A strange, odd, eccentric person.
  2. An insane, possibly dangerous person.

adjective

  1. Weird.

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.

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