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    [Adjective]  | "weird" | \ ˈwird \


    1: of strange or extraordinary character : odd, fantastic

    2: of, relating to, or caused by witchcraft or the supernatural : magical

    Origin: 1817 ;

     From construal as an adjective of {see: |weird:2|weird:2} in weird sisters, name for the Fates of Greek and Roman myth (early Scots werd sisteris, Middle English wyrde systeres, Shakespeare weyard/weyward sisters, applied to the witches in Macbeth);

    [Noun]  | "weird" 


    1: fate, destiny; especially : ill fortune

    2: soothsayer

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English wird, werd, going back to Old English wyrd, going back to Germanic *wurdi- "fate, chance" (whence Old Saxon wurđ "fate," Old High German wurt, Old Norse urðr), derivative from the base of *werþan- "to come about, happen, become" {mat|worth:4|};

    [Verb]  | "weird out" 


    1: to make uneasy, bewildered, or disquieted by something considered very strange

    Origin: 1970 ;

    [Plural noun]  | "Weird Sisters" 


    1: fates

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Adjective]  | "weird" 


    1: different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion;


      * e.g., " ... always has a somewhat weird opinion of what's happening in the news "




    2: fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic;


      * e.g., " ... weird sounds from the woods just beyond our campsite "



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    3: having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers;


      * e.g., " ... a self-styled, contemporary witch, she sells herbal mixtures that she claims are weird potions "



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    [Verb]  | "weird out" 


    1: to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy;


      * e.g., " ... as a curious observer, he was weirded out by the fact that members of the sect seemed to have no life outside of it "




     

     

     

     

     


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