| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy: crackpot, crazy, lunatic. Informal : crank, loon, loony. Slang : cuckoo, ding-a-ling, dingbat, kook, nut, screwball, weirdie, weirdo. See WISE. | | ADJECTIVE: | Deviating from the customary: bizarre, cranky, curious, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird. Slang : kooky, screwball. British Slang : rum, rummy2. See USUAL.
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