Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011 ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. Weird - fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters Wyrd Anglo-Saxon deity - (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons Adj....
This language is also rather unusual because it’s the only one that doesn’t have any structures, change of word order, or intonation in place in order to distinguish a yes-or-no question from a statement. In other words, there’s no way to really tell whether someone is saying somethi...
In Southwest Congo, Ilunga (which is a word from the Tshiluba language) is one of the most famous untranslatable words. Most professional translators translate it as the stature of a person that’s ready to forgive and forget any kind of abuse, tolerate it once more, but who will never ...
Words from French that have been adopted into English are similarly frustrating for Wordle players. The wordmadamrecently caused some annoyance, as didfoyer.Foyercan be pronounced either [foi-er ] or [foi-ey ] in English, which doesn’t make it any easier to spell. In English, afoyeris ...
But Gabriel's words put this in the oddball category, presenting a warped Victorian fairy tale filled with rapid aging, croquet violence and creepy sexual advances. 6. "Watcher of the Skies" (from 1972's Foxtrot) It takes a lot of weirdness to raise the eyebrow of Geddy Lee, but this ...
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not associated with each other. This is because the town’s name is derived from the words ‘condate-ó-magos’ or ‘condatómagos’ and this means “the market of the confluence”. The name evolved over time and changed to be “Conddóm” that is like the word ‘condom’ in English....
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" the band's first full-fledged prog epic — and first tangible step into weirdness. The music builds from childlike 12-string chimes to pseudo-classical thunder, a quiet-loud dynamic they'd more brazenly explore down the line. But Gabriel's words put this in the oddball category, ...
“I can already tell we’re going to have to change the name of the show to Miley’s Voice,” Blake said. It’s pretty obvious that Blake doesn’t think Miley has “a way with words.” 3. A onsie model — and former Broadway performer — wins over Alicia and Blake. G...