Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of weird
- uncommonThe process of becoming weird.
The weirding of English has been an ongoing phenomenon throughout history.
2004, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien, Weird English, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 42 more examples
The Anthropocene is about global weirding—the weirding of a natural world that can no longer be separated from human interference, but also the weirding of human existence that has become a “geological force,” beyond control and intention.
2020, Gabriele Dürbeck, Philip Hüpkes, editors, The Anthropocenic Turn: The Interplay between Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Responses to a New Age, Routledge, →ISBNThere is no better example of such a phenomenon as the infamous moment when Bob Dylan was proclaimed a ‘judas’ for going electric. Such an invasion might be read as a weirding of dominant culture.
2023, Richard Perks, John McGrath, editors, 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 192
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