weirding

English

Verb

weirding

1. present participle and gerund of weird

Noun

weirding

1. (uncommon) The process of becoming weird.
   • 2004, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien, Weird English, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

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

   • 2020, Gabriele Dürbeck, Philip Hüpkes, editors, The Anthropocenic Turn: The Interplay between Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Responses to a New Age‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2023, Richard Perks, John McGrath, editors, 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 192:

     There 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.

Derived terms

• global weirding

Anagrams

• dewiring