weirdscape

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English

Etymology

From weird +‎ -scape.

Noun

weirdscape (plural weirdscapes)

  1. A bizarre place or atmosphere.
    • 2007, Don Waters, Desert Gothic, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 141:
      But sixty-plus middle-aged women dangling from ape-hanger handlebars, their modified Hogs parked along the town's half-mile drag, make for an unexpected, discombobulating weirdscape.
    • 2007 May 6, Marion Bull, “Journey to the Edge of the World”, in Daily Mail:
      You need a four-wheel-drive to get to the old Zero Meridian monument through a boulder-strewn, euphorbia-covered weirdscape and tiny craters called hornitos (little ovens), via the Orchilla lighthouse where the first man crossed the island.
    • 2014 April 9, Laurie Penny, “A tale of two cities: how San Francisco's tech boom is widening the gap between rich and poor”, in New Statesman:
      Zawinski was one of the founders of Netscape, “the first web browser that mattered”, and is often touted as an example of a techie who has worked to keep San Francisco’s vaudevillian weirdscape alive and dancing, rather than just getting out with his pile.
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