weird and wonderful

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɪə(ɹ)d ən ˈwʌndə(ɹ)fəl/
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Adjective

weird and wonderful (comparative more weird and wonderful, superlative most weird and wonderful)

  1. Delightfully unusual.
    • 2008 October 18, Quentin Wilson, The Mirror:
      Daihatsu Hi-Jet is weird and wonderfool [sic]
    • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      What kept Zoe’s dad going was making brand new ice-cream flavours. At the end of every shift at the factory he would rush home excitedly, laden with samples of some weird and wonderful new flavour for Zoe to be the first to try.
    • 2012, Mitchell Symons, The Bumper Book For The Loo, page 721:
      In this supremo of weird and wonderful, astonishing and inexplicable facts, figures, stats and stories returns with a bumper selection of trivialistic treats - each one more remarkable and, yes, even more trivial than anything he's compiled before.