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odd fish

noun

Definitions

  1. An unusual thing or eccentric person.

    • We are constantly told how normal and honorable Thoreau was, yet it seems that we would get much further in understanding him if we began, by conceding that he was an odd fish, full of peculiar conceits.
    • The second work is more promising, but something of an odd fish: the anonymous German treatise Schwester Katrei.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for odd fish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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