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Another word for weirdie

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Noun

  1. A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy

      1. An eccentric person, especially one with bizarre ideas.
      2. A mentally unbalanced or eccentric person; often, specif., a person who holds or is a proponent of a highly unorthodox or eccentric belief
      1. One who is or appears to be mentally deranged:
      2. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
      1. (Physics) A disk or wheel having its axis of revolution displaced from its center so that it is capable of imparting reciprocating motion.
      2. An odd or unconventional person
      3. A disk set off center on a shaft and revolving inside a strap that is attached to one end of a rod, thereby converting the circular motion of the shaft into back-and-forth motion of the rod
      1. (Rare) A fanciful or unusual turn of speech or thought; conceit
      2. A handle or arm bent at right angles and connected to a shaft of a machine, used to transmit motion or to change rotary motion into reciprocating motion, or vice versa
      3. (Informal) A person who has odd, stubborn notions about something; eccentric
      1. One who is crazy or deranged.
      2. Any of an order (Gaviiformes) of fish-eating diving birds, with a sharp bill and webbed feet, found mainly in subarctic regions: noted for its weird cry
      3. A crazy person
      1. A foolish or crazy person.
      1. (Slang) A foolish or crazy person.
      2. Any of a family (Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes) of birds with a long, slender body, grayish-brown on top and white below: many, including the European species (Cuculus canorus), lay eggs in the nests of other birds, but the American species hatch and rear their own young
      3. The call of a cuckoo, which sounds somewhat like its name
      1. (Slang) A crazy, stupid, or eccentric person
      1. (Slang) An empty-headed or silly person.
      2. (Informal, former) A stone, stick, or other object suitable for throwing
      3. (Slang) An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
      1. A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy.
      1. (Informal) A difficult endeavor or problem:
      2. A small block of metal or wood with a central, threaded hole that is designed to fit around and secure a bolt or screw.
      3. The dry, one-seeded fruit of any of various trees or shrubs, consisting of a kernel, often edible, in a hard and woody or tough and leathery shell, more or less separable from the seed itself, as the walnut, pecan, chestnut, acorn, etc.
      1. (Baseball) A pitched ball that curves in the direction opposite to that of a normal curve ball.
      2. (Baseball) A ball thrown by a right-handed pitcher that curves to the right, or one thrown by a left-handed pitcher that curves to the left
      3. (Slang) A person who seems erratic, irrational, unconventional, or unbalanced
      1. A strange or eccentric person.
    See also:

    wise

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