weird out

English

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Verb

weird out (third-person singular simple present weirds out, present participle weirding out, simple past and past participle weirded out)

1. (slang, transitive) To make someone feel, by weirdness, uneasy or uncomfortable; to make one feel (that something is) weird.
   • 1996, Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade:

     I don't know why you're so weirded out. This is not San Quentin, it's just a nuthouse.

   • 2000, Tim Minear, Shawn Ryan, “Reunion”, in Angel, season 2, episode 10:

     Man, somehow that weirds me out more than the whole bloodsucking thing.

   • 2004, Adam Roberts, Swiftly, Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 72:

     “ […] That's an unbearable thing for a parent to hear, my darling. Do you see?”
     “You're weirding me out, ma. This whole conversation is weirding me out.”

Translations

make feel strange

• Dutch: de kriebels bezorgen

See also

• creep out
• gross out
• whig

Anagrams

• outweird