Word Study
oddball
CIDE DICTIONARY
oddball, n.
- A person with an unusual or odd personality; an eccentric person. [WordNet 1.5]
- Anything unusual in its class. [PJC]"Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice."
oddball, a.
Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre; as, an oddball request. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
oddball, n. colloq.
1 an odd or eccentric person.
2 (attrib.) strange, bizarre.
1 an odd or eccentric person.
2 (attrib.) strange, bizarre.
THESAURUS
oddball
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