Whack vs Weird - What's the difference?
whack | weird |
A blow, impact or slap.
A share or portion.
* 1951 , , Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922 ,
An attempt.
To hit, slap or strike.
* G. W. Cable
(slang) To kill, bump off.
To share or parcel out.
(label) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
* 2012 , Ryan Pyette,
To surpass; to better.
* 2012 , Steve Cullen,
Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
* Longfellow
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1 Scene 5
Having supernatural or preternatural power.
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.
(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
* 1912 , , trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)
A prediction.
(obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
That which comes to pass; a fact.
(archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).
To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
To warn solemnly; adjure.
See weird out .
As nouns the difference between whack and weird
is that whack is a blow, impact or slap while weird is (acronym) western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.As a verb whack
is to hit, slap or strike.whack
English
Noun
(en noun)- For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib. , tea, and plenty of good bread.
Verb
(en verb)- Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
- The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
Total Flyfisher:
- Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* out of whack * whack off * whack the illy * whacky English onomatopoeiasweird
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.
- Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!'
- There was a weird light shining above the hill.
- There are lots of weird people in this place.
- It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
Usage notes
* Weird is one of the most noted exceptions to the (I before E except after C) spelling heuristic.Synonyms
* (having supernatural or preternatural power) eerie, uncanny * (unusually strange in character or behaviour) fremd, oddball, peculiar, whacko * (deviating from the normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, strange * (of or pertaining to the Fates) fateful * See alsoDerived terms
* weirdo * weirdly * weirdness * weird outNoun
(en noun)- In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison / Shall she steal forth never again.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* * weirdlessVerb
(en verb)- That joke really weirded me out.