The word 'weirdie' is not considered a standard English word and is not commonly used in written English.
It is often seen as a colloquial or slang term. It may be used informally in spoken English, but it is not recommended for formal writing. Example: "My friends are a bunch of weirdies, always coming up with crazy ideas."
This tragic-comic cult weirdie is endlessly quotable.
Designed to within an inch of its life, and possessed of an almost Lynchian visual sensibility, this dreamy/nightmarish weirdie finds Araki reining in his anarchic excesses with rewarding results, as his satirical sensuality reaps the benefits of a heavily orchestrated deadpan formality.
All of which sounds great, as does the presence of the charismatic Ed Hogg who was so dazzling in the tap-dancing-and-murder weirdie White Lightnin'.
Taglined "A Vampire for Our Age of Disbelief", George A Romero's weirdie boasted John Amplas as the blood-sucking boy next door who may be nothing more than a twisted youth with severe behavioural problems.
Having excelled as the troubled young protagonist of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, Max Records confirms his engagingly off-kilter credentials in this US-set, UK/Ireland-produced weirdie.
Frankly, it's hard to imagine how this Norwegian weirdie could be improved upon.
THE BOTTOM LINE As the ridiculous megapixel race winds down at last, camera companies are now putting effort into differentiating their cameras — and wow, are there some weirdies here, like the two-screened Samsung, the green-screen mode of the Casio and the would-be camcorder Panasonic.
Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Lenin, Marx, the mullahs in Iran, Frank Dobson - all beardy weirdies.
Men with excessive facial hair were "beardie weirdies".
Only beardie weirdies, after all, have any intention of entering the World Beard Championships, whose entrants are basically giving off the message: "don't come near me, my facial representation of the Eiffel Tower is more important to me than regular contact with my fellow humans".
They either ignore or despise, as the hero does, the petty life-philosophy of the "mugs, squares, peasants (i.e. rich people), weirdies, and conscripts" - in fact, all the rest of us who do not "dig the teenage thing" and, as it were, put everything in aseptic inverted commas.
