Weirdling

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something which is odd, weird, strange, or unusual; oddball; weirdie; weirdo.

    "It was a dusky grey haze — a weirdling, impossible, unreal haze like no sky anyone anywhere had ever seen or will ever see: it was a sky made from grey mother of pearl and stale brackish water."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Strange.

Synonyms

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bizarrebizarrocrackpotcrankfreakkook

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"It was a dusky grey haze — a weirdling, impossible, unreal haze like no sky anyone anywhere had ever seen or will ever see: it was a sky made from grey mother of pearl and stale brackish water."

Etymology

From weird + -ling. Compare oddling.

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