different between sicko vs weirdo

English

Etymology

sick +? -o (“person with characteristic”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?ko?/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Noun

sicko (plural sickos or sickoes)

1. (derogatory, slang) A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits.
   • 1986 June 9, David Denby, Movies: Poison, New York, page 130,

     But in fact, the murders have been committed by an army of sickos, a phalanx of wild-eyed droolers led by a monster goon with a concrete jaw and a Neanderthal brow.

   • 1997, Shannon Bell, Chapter 5: On ne peut pas voir l?image [The image cannot be seen], Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki L. Ross, Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision, page 231,

     We can?t say that it is our responses of horror and revulsion that are upsetting to the youth; therefore, those attracted to them are deviants, sickos, who should be cured/punished like the homosexuals of the forties and fifties.

   • 2009, Stuart E. Weisberg, Barney Frank: The Story of America?s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman, page 372,

     The conservative Boston Herald, which had earlier described the revelations about Barney?s two-year relationship with a male prostitute as “one of the most tawdry episodes in modern Massachusetts politics” and had run a story by the columnist Howie Carr calling Frank “a sicko who happens to be a pol,” urged him to resign his house seat.

2. (US, Canada, slang) A mentally ill person.
3. A physically ill person.

Usage notes

The plural form sickoes is somewhat rare.

Synonyms

• (day taken off work due to illness): sick day, sickie (slang)
• (person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits): weirdo

Translations

Adjective

sicko (comparative more sicko, superlative most sicko)

1. Characterized by depraved tastes or habits; deviant.
   • 1996, Mark Richard Zubro, Another Dead Teenager: A Paul Turner Mystery, St. Martin's Griffin (?ISBN):

     “Your kid isn't nuts.” “Ever had one of his broccoli-and-asparagus omelets? Kid eats another vegetable, I'm going to ram a carrot down his throat until he gags.” “Most parents would kill for a kid like yours. Come on, admit it. This kid was sicko.”

   • 1998, Daniel Hecht, Skull Session, New York : Viking

     The damage level was sicko, even Eddy had been taken aback when they'd first gone inside, scared but trying to hide it. What was Eddy doing? "One last thing I wanna get," he'd said, and then disappeared back into the house. Now he was ...

   • 2012, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children, Yale University Press (?ISBN), page 73:

     “I didn't want that pediatrician to touch me, he was, like, a very weird guy, very sicko.” He took pictures of her genitals, and she later wondered whether this was for child pornography.

Anagrams

• Kocis

English

Etymology

weird +? -o (“person with characteristic”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w???do?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d??

Noun

weirdo (plural weirdoes or weirdos)

1. (slang) A strange, odd, eccentric person.
2. (slang) An insane, possibly dangerous person.

Synonyms

• (strange person): See Thesaurus:strange person
• (insane person): See Thesaurus:mad person

Derived terms

• queerdo

Translations

See also

• oddball
• wingnut
• rando
• sicko

Anagrams

• rowdie, wordie