weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, creep, oddball, screwball, nut, loony, loner, case, geezer, kook, odd duck, squirrel.
10. homosexual, homosexualist, homophile, third sex, invert; transvestite, drag queen; All SI.
queen, gunsel, chicken, punk, limp-wrist, three-dollar bill, Brit, ginger, ginger beer, Brit, poof, Brit, poofter, All Derog. homo, queer, faggot, fag, fruit, flit, fairy, pansy, nance, auntie; bisexual, SI.bi-guy, SI.switch hitter; lesbian, sapphist, tribade, SI.butch, SI.femme, Derog. dyke, Derog. bull dyke, Archaic, fricatrice.
11. (all with reference to sexual relations) pervert, fiend, brute, deviant, degenerate, maniac, criminal, psychopath; sadist, masochist, fetishist, voyeur, scato-philiac, erotomanic, narcissist, nymphomaniac; sod-omist, sodomite, bugger; pederast, pedophiliac, catamite; coprophiliac; necrophiliac; zoophiliac.
deviation, n. 1. veer, veering, curve, curving, turn, turning, swerve, swerving, bend, bending; tacking, wheeling, wheeling about, swinging about; shift, shifting, switch, switching, shunting, straying, drifting, roving, divagating; digression, digressing, maundering.
2. departure, divergence, declension, declination, deflection, stepping aside, steering clear; change, difference.
3. aberration, waywardness, deviousness, unacceptableness; anomaly, abnormality, irregularity, variable, variableness; strangeness, oddness, incongruousness, peculiarity, curiousness, queerness, eccentricity, quirk, Inf. quirkiness; unconventionality, uncommonness, uncommonality, unusualness, exception, singularity, singularness, individuality.
4. unnaturalness, freakishness, Inf. kinkiness; perversion, corruption, wantonness, depravity, depravation, degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, deterioration, vitiation, debasement, abasement; licentiousness, lasciviousness, lewdness, erotomania; homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, sexual inversion, lesbianism, sapphism, tribadism or tribady, Inf. gayness, Derog. faggotry, Derog. faggism; bisexuality, bisex-ualism, amphieroticism, SI.swinging or hitting both ways; autoeroticism.
5. (all with reference to sexual relations) perversion, fiendishness, deviance, abnormality, psychopathy, pathology, criminality; sadism, masochism, sadomasochism, SI.s-m, algolagnia, algolagny; fetishism, voyeurism, scatophilia, narcissism, exhibitionism; sodomy, buggery; pederasty, pedophilia; coprophilia; necrophilia; zoophilia; incest, incestuousness.
6. division, departure, disunion, secession, desertion, underground movement; separation, falling out, breach, split, rupture, break, rent.
7. monstrosity, heteroclite, freak, mutant, hermaphrodite, epicene.
device, n. 1. appliance, instrument, apparatus, mechanism, contrivance, Inf. contraption, invention, gadget, hickey, SI.gimmick; implement, utensil, tool, machine, equipment, gear, outfit, tackle, rigging; means, wherewithal, resources, expedient, agent, medium.
2. design, plan, project; strategem, Inf. wrinkle, artifice, trick, Inf. flimflam, wile, ruse, trap; intrigue, plot, scheme, strategy, machination; conspiracy, complot, cabal; subterfuge, blind, Inf. dodge, fetch; maneuver, feint, deception, sleight, shift, move, evasion, shuffle; fraud, imposture, imposition, hoax.
3. pattern, figure, motto, slogan, legend; mark, trademark, hallmark, Numismatics, countermark;