weirdo

noun
/ˈwɪədəʊ/UK/ˈwɪəɹdoʊ/US

Etymology

From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”). The earliest documented usages date to the early 1950s in the United States. The similar Scottish word "weirdie" (also referring to an odd, unconventional person) is attested from earlier, in 1887.

  1. borrowed from weird
  2. derived from *wert-
  3. derived from *wurdiz
  4. derived from *wurdi
  5. derived from wyrd
  6. derived from werde
  7. suffixed as weirdo — “weird + o

Definitions

  1. A strange, odd, eccentric person.

  2. An insane, possibly dangerous person.

  3. Weird.

    • What's going on in this weirdo town?
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A superfan of American science-fiction author Andy Weir.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA