oddball
noun/ˈɑːdˌbɔl/US
Etymology
Compound of odd + ball. First used in late 1930s, describing an extra ball played as a bonus in pin-ball type games. Well-attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.
Definitions
An eccentric or unusual person.
- Miss Quinn thought that Oswald spoke Russian well in view of his lack of formal training; she found the evening uninteresting. Donovan, with whom she had a date later, testified that she told him that Oswald was “kind of an oddball.”
- "She's different, mister. A real oddball, if you know what I mean. But your little girl would love her. All kids love the Doll Lady."
A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger…
A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
Exotic, not mainstream.
- An oddball word processor, for example, might never be supported by such helpful tools as spelling checkers, indexing programs, footnote utilities,...
The neighborhood
- synonymodd duck
- synonymstrange fish
- synonymqueer fish
- synonymweirdo
- synonymstrange person
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for oddball. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA