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Added 30 September 2026

weirdo

/ˈwɪə.dəʊ/ noun

First recorded: 1950 Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about weirdo at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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

Origin

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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