a. [f. WEIRD a. + -ISH.] Somewhat weird.
1852. W. A. Sutliffe, in Graham’s Mag., XLI. 379/1.
| While night, in silence deeper dipt for aye, | |
| Hushes to midnight in a weirdish calm. |
1863. Disraeli, in Monypenny & Buckle, Life (1914), III. 472. A great number of owls have been disturbed…. Their hooting at night is wilder and louder than the south-west wind, which, indeed, is only the accompaniment to their weirdish arias.
1885. Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl., 28 Nov., 2/7.
| Like a thunder roll | |
| In a darksome night; | |
| Like a weirdish toll | |
| From the belfry height. |
1914. E. F. Benson, Dodo the Second, iii. 68. I was always weirdish, I suppose, and I am too old to change now.
