Crossword clues for bizarre
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bizarre \Bi*zarre"\,
[F. bizarre odd, fr. Sp. bizarro gallant, brave, liberal, pro
of Basque origin; cf. Basque bizarra beard, whence the meaning manly, brave.] Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.
--C. Kingsley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French bizarre "odd, fantastic" (16c.), originally "handsome, brave," perhaps from Basque bizar "a beard" (the notion being of bearded Spanish soldiers making a strange impression on the French); alternative etymology traces it to Italian bizarro "angry, fierce, irascible," from bizza "fit of anger."
Wiktionary
a. strangely unconventional in style or appearance.
WordNet
adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]
Wikipedia
Bizarre may refer to:
- Bizarre (rapper) (born 1976), American rapper and former member of hip hop group D12
- Bizarre (band), Spanish rock band
- Bizarre (TV series), a Canadian sketch comedy television series
- Bizarre (magazine), a sister magazine to The Fortean Times
- Bizarre (film), a 2015 French film
- Bizarre Records, a record label
- Bizarre, a fetish magazine published by John Willie
Rufus Arthur Johnson (born July 5, 1976), better known by his stage name Bizarre, is an American rapper, best known for his work with Detroit-based hip hop group D12.
Bizarre is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that aired from 1980 to 1986. The show was hosted by John Byner, and produced by CTV at the CFTO Glen-Warren Studios in suburban Toronto for first-run airing in Canada on CTV and in the United States on the Showtime premium cable network.
Bizarre was a British alternative magazine published from 1997 to 2015. It is published by Dennis Publishing, and is a sister publication to the Fortean Times.
Bizarre are a rock band from Blanes, Catalonia, Spain. They are best known in their country by their 2006 hit single "Sé", which is widely played not only in Catalonia and Spain but also in some Latin American countries.
Although their songs are mostly sung in Spanish, several of them have been also recorded in Catalan ("Sé", "Difícil d'oblidar", "No és massa tard", "T'amagues"...), English ("Alone in NY" and some unreleased demos) and Italian ("So").
Bizarre have released up to date two albums: their debut Bizarre (Mass Records, 2006) and Zero (Mass Records, 2010).
Bizarre is the tenth and final album by the Los Angeles, California-based R&B group The Sylvers. Released in 1984, the album was primarily produced by Leon Sylvers III along with Foster Sylvers and James Sylvers. This was their only album for Geffen Records.
Bizarre is a 2015 French drama film directed by Etienne Faure. It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. In June and August 2015, Bizarre was screened at The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival 2015.
Usage examples of "bizarre".
Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles, a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences.
Everyone stopped speaking to stare agog at the man who had uttered this bizarre snippet.
He looked a bit banged up, and his clothes were still a bit sodden, obviously from having been tossed into the river by Aileron of the Harpers Bizarre.
Tuli Kupferberg, the percussionist with the Fugs, already had an album out of his readings from bizarre advertisements, and the remaining Fug, Ed Sanders, was down for a future poetry album.
Systems Processing Center, houses a series of bizarre anechoic chambers.
Of these, there was none so kooky, none so bizarre, none so preposterous none so downright evil as the Aquarian Foundation, set up in 1927 on Vancouver Island by the man who called himself The Brother, XII.
Madame Psychosis as bizarre that it was she, Madame Psychosis, whom the Auteur kept casting as various feminine instantiations of Death when he had the real thing right under his nose, and eminently photogenic to boot, the widow-to-be, apparently a real restaurant-silencer-type beauty even in her late forties.
The steady flux led to a number of forms bizarre beyond belief, forms which-ha Bem told them-rarely lasted out a day or more before the component integrals reatized their own absurdity.
Tales of bibliomania taken to extremes have appeared elsewhere, but never with the bizarre touch Michell provides.
The most bizarre homosexual biker story told is not about the Angels, but the Lobos in Windsor, Ontario.
She seemed at ease with her bizarre parasite, utterly human except for the bioluminescence in her hands.
Although Bushido forbade Sano to contradict his lord, he had to amend this bizarre distortion of the facts.
Chult, he had, as Byrt suggested, simply dismissed the unique duo as yet another example of bizarre local fauna.
Leaving his lieutenant in charge of the convoy, Capel made the seven-mile ride to Corduin to report the bizarre events of the day.
Both Tze- go-juni and Cissy spoke Spanish, however-a side ben- efit, as Cissy explained it, of her lme of work-and their conversations that morning had been three-way roundtable affairs, with ideas communicated in a bizarre mix of all three languages.