Brave, bearded, angry pizza eater.
For the answer, we turn to the tangled history of the word "bizarre," courtesy of Dr. Robert Beard, aka Dr. Goodword:
We have our choice of two etymologies for this word, neither of them satisfactory. French bizarre "odd, fantastic" began its life meaning "handsome, brave". French apparently borrowed the word with this sense from Spanish bizarro. Spanish
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