PECULIAR, PECULIARITY, PECULIARLY
ADJECTIVES
– DIPPY foolish, simple-minded, idiotic, shallow-minded; infatuated, deeply in love; peculiar, mildly insane, crazy …1899 US sl.
– FITIFIED eccentric, peculiar; hysterical, nervous; erratic, fastidious …1912 Amer. dial.
– FUNNY odd, peculiar, strange; interesting, surprising, unexpected …1793 colloq.
– FUNNY-LOOKING strange, peculiar, or odd-looking …1895
– FUNNY-PECULIAR funny in the sense of strange or peculiar …1916 colloq.
– JAKEY peculiar or odd in appearance …1964 US sl.
– NARROW-NEBBED stubborn, dogmatic; peculiar …1930 Amer. dial.
– NEONACH of a person: peculiar, droll …1930 Sc.
– NOTIONABLE of people: queer, odd, strange, peculiar …1967 Amer. dial.
– NOTIONAL strange, having odd or peculiar ideas; fanciful, whimsical; opinionated; temperamental; fussy …1791 Amer. dial.
– NOTIONATE strange, having odd or peculiar ideas; fanciful, whimsical; opinionated; temperamental; fussy …1850 Amer. dial.
– ODD AS ADAM’S OFF-OX, AS said of one having odd or peculiar ideas or notions …1966 Amer. dial.
– ODD AS DICK’S HATBAND very odd or peculiar …1909 Amer. dial.
– ODD AS GOD’S OFF-OX, AS said of one having odd or peculiar ideas or notions …1967 Amer. dial.
– ODDBALL markedly peculiar or eccentric …1940 US sl.
– OFF-BRAND odd, peculiar, unusual, unconventional, strange …1960 Amer. sl.
– OFF THE WALL bizarre, peculiar …1937 sl., orig. US
– OINDALEG peculiar, strange, odd in manner …1897 Sc.
– OINDALIE peculiar, strange, odd in manner …1897 Sc.
– ONDALI † strange, odd, mysterious, peculiar, comical …a1838 Sc.
– ONELY-SIDED doubtful, peculiar …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ON OFFSIDES of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended …1969 Amer. dial.
– ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended …1969 Amer. dial.
– OONLY † strange, odd, mysterious, peculiar, comical …a1838 Sc.
– OZZY strange-looking, peculiar …1950 Amer. dial.
– PARTICULAR remarkable, worthy of note, unusual; odd, strange, peculiar …1712 Sc.
– SKEE-GEE peculiar, confused, awkward …1954 Amer. dial.
– SKEW-GEE peculiar, confused, awkward …1896 Amer. dial.
– SUNDERLY † peculiar, special, private …c888
– TOBY-STRICKEN congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd …1933 Amer. dial.
– TOBY-STRUCK congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd …1933 Amer. dial.
– UNCO unusual, out of the ordinary; odd, strange, peculiar, weird, uncanny …1725 Sc.
ADVERBS
1752 ► SINGULARLY oddly, strangely, peculiarly
1864 ► UNCO strangely, peculiarly → Sc.
1916 ► QUEER in an odd manner, in a peculiar way; very → Sc.
NOUNS
– JIGGUMBOB something strange, peculiar, or unknown; a thing …1859 Amer. dial.
– KEERIORUM, QUEERIORUM an object, person, or animal exhibiting some singularity, something rare, puzzling, or peculiar; an oddity …1959 Sc.
– ODDLING a thing peculiar or abnormal in a harmless, inoffensive way …1941 Amer. dial.
– DAPS habits, ways, peculiarities …1825 Eng. dial.
– FUNNIOSITY a comical action, remark, etc.; a joke, a witticism; also, a peculiarity, an oddity …1871 colloq.
– IDIASM a peculiarity, mannerism ..1868
– IDIOTISM † a peculiarity of action, manner, or habit …1620
– KEESTER a trait, whim, or peculiarity, generally bad …1929 Sc.
– NIFF-NAFF fussiness of disposition; a silly peculiarity of temper …B1900 Sc.
– QUEERALITIES eccentricities, peculiarities …20C Irish sl.
– STREAK a mental peculiarity …1647 sl.
– UNCONESS strangeness, peculiarity, eccentricity …1637 Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
– BEZABOR a peculiar person …1930 Amer. dial.
– CASE an unusual, queer, or peculiar person; a character; a disreputable person; a difficult fellow …1859 Amer. dial.
– COON a peculiar old fellow …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– COVE a peculiar, eccentric person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– CRANK-POT a person who has odd or peculiar ideas …1965 Amer. dial.
– DINGBAT an odd or peculiar person; one who is queer but harmless; an eccentric …1879 Amer.
– DIRK a foolish, peculiar, or obnoxious person; an absent-minded or inattentive person; a jerk …1964 US sl.
– FUNNY BUNNY a peculiar or ridiculous person …1966 US sl.
– GAZABE an awkward, strange, or stupid person; a peculiar or loutish person …1899 sl.
– GAZABO an awkward, strange, or stupid person; an odd, peculiar or loutish person …1889 sl.
– GAZEE a stupid, loutish, or peculiar person …1927 US sl.
– GEEZER a stingy or peculiar man; a strange old fellow …L19 colloq.
– GIMMICK a foolish, peculiar, or eccentric person; one who has been mulcted by cults, healers, fortune-tellers, or mystics …1926 US sl.
– GINZO a peculiar or worthless fellow …1938 US sl.
– GOOBERHEAD one who has odd or peculiar ideas or notions …1970 Amer. dial.
– ODDLING a person or thing peculiar or abnormal in a harmless, inoffensive way; an agreeable, even-tempered half-wit …1941 Amer. dial.
– THUMMART † a term of contempt applied to a curious or peculiar person …1822 Sc.
– WACK a crazy, zany, irrational, peculiar, eccentric, or amusing person …1938 sl., orig. US
– WACKER a crazy, zany, irrational, peculiar, eccentric, or amusing person …1965 Aust. sl.
VERBS
1716 ► IDIOTIZE to act in a way peculiar to themselves → obs.