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| - | When commonly used in conversation, [[grotesque]] means [[strange]], [[fantastic]], [[ugly]] or [[bizarre]], and thus is often used to describe [[weird]] shapes and distorted forms such as [[Halloween]] masks or [[gargoyle]]s on churches. More specifically, the grotesque forms on [[Gothic architecture|Gothic buildings]], when not used as drainspouts, should not be called [[gargoyle]]s, but rather referred to simply as grotesques, or [[chimera]]s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | + | This page ''{{PAGENAME}}'' is part of the [[publication bias list of the Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia]], presented by [[Alfred Jarry]].]] |
| + | [[Image:Portrait_von_Antonietta_Gonzales_by_Lavinia_Fontana_ca.1594-1595.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Portrait]] of [[Antonietta Gonzales]] (ca.[[1594]]-[[1595]]) by [[Lavinia Fontana]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Blemmyes (legendary creatures).jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Blemmyes (legendary creatures)|Blemmyes]] from [[Hartmann Schedel]]'s ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'' ([[1493]])]] {{Template}} | ||
| + | # Having [[supernatural]] or [[preternatural]] [[power]]. | ||
| + | # Having an unusually [[strange]] character or behaviour. | ||
| + | # Deviating from the normal; [[bizarre]]. | ||
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| + | '''Weird''' may refer to: | ||
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| + | *[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] (born 1959), American musician and parodist | ||
| + | *[[Weird fiction]], speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century | ||
| + | *[[Weird Tales]], magazine | ||
| + | *''[[The Weird]]'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction | ||
| + | ==Etymology== | ||
| + | From Old English ''[[wyrd]]'' ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed"). | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[New Weird America]], a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s | ||
| + | *[[Weirdo]] | ||
| + | *[[Wyrd]], an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate | ||
| + | == See also (2) == | ||
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| + | *"[[odd]], [[uncanny]]", see [[grotesque]], [[confusion]], [[freak]], [[surprise]]. | ||
| + | *[[Weirdo (magazine)]] | ||
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| + | {{GFDL}} | ||
| + | [[Category:Non-mainstream]] | ||
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- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Weird may refer to:
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist
- Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century
- Weird Tales, magazine
- The Weird, a 2012 anthology of weird fiction
Etymology
From Old English wyrd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed").
See also
- New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
- Weirdo
- Wyrd, an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate
See also (2)
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