weirdien.
/ˈwɪədi/, U.S. /ˈwɪ(ə)rdi/ slang.
1. An odd or unconventional person; one who is considered ‘weird’; spec. applied to any young man with long hair and a beard. Frequently in plural.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society
beard1667
come-outer1840
pagan1841
Bohemian1843
Greenwich Villager1887
weirdie1894
outsider1907
white nigger1934
beardo1935
isolate1942
weirdo1955
beat1958
beatnik1958
boho1958
beatster1959
way out1959
hippie1966
rebetis1966
homeboy1967
peanut1968
Yippie1968
suedehead1970
Goth1986
grebo1987
hipster1989
1894 A. S. Robertson Provost o' Glendookie 101 ‘He's awa without his curran' loaf.’ ‘He's a weerdie.’
1949 W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle (1950) ii. 19 Cobby..thought to himself: ‘He's a weirdy, all right.’
1954 ‘P. Quentin’ Wife of Ronald Sheldon vii. 57 God, is that one a weirdie!.. There was a cobweb in her hair.
1959 Listener 3 Dec. 975/1 The weirdies that Kerouac seems always to meet wandering and muttering in the small hours.
1960 Spectator 22 Apr. 569 There were more than forty thousand of us—weirdies and beardies, colonels and conchies, Communists and Liberals.
1961 Observer 28 May 1/5 The beardy weirdies with their querulous bleatings.
1962 Punch 14 Feb. 268/2 One [bedsitter]..advertiser..added ‘No Weirdies either’.
1966 Daily Tel. 17 Nov. 18/8 There was not an unwashed bearded weirdie in sight!
1974 K. Millett Flying (1975) i. 94 I'm not a friend, just the visiting weirdie.
2. Something that is ‘weird’, fantastic, bizarre, or grotesque. Frequently applied to a film, book, etc.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > bizarreness > that which is bizarre
outré1759
bizarre1850
weirdie1948
1948 Astounding Sci. Fiction Jan. 15 The Cosmos had one of its feature writers compose a weirdie about a world consisting of beings of pure mind.
1962 Listener 14 June 1043/3 The Lake Lovers is a weirdie.
1968 Blues Unlimited Nov. 25 Country Jim is a weirdie.
1969 ‘R. Petrie’ Despatch of Dove i. 26 No mistake, it was a weirdy of a day.
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