weirding

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of weird.

   His endless conspiracy theories were weirding out his roommates at dinner.

   The constant glitches were weirding everyone out across the office.

   Note

   Behind this -ing form stands a verb of fate and sorcery: weird can mean to destine or doom, to change by witchcraft, or to warn solemnly. All of those uses are transitive, so weirding normally takes a direct object. You weird a person; you do not simply weird. The same spelling also serves as the noun for growing strange, where no object follows.

2. 2
   nounrarecountable or uncountable

   The gradual process by which something or someone becomes weird or strange.

   Critics described the show's late-season weirding as a deliberate creative choice.

   The weirding of English has been an ongoing phenomenon throughout history.

   2004, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien, Weird English

   Note

   A word that has found its home in critical and academic prose, usually in the pattern the weirding of something: of English, of dominant culture, of the natural world. One striking collocation is global weirding, which The Anthropocenic Turn (2020) applies to a natural world no longer separable from human interference. It is still uncommon, and it suits writing about cultural or environmental change better than casual talk.

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