oddball

 Signifoj 

[1] bizara; bizarulo; stranga; strangulo

English

Etymology

Compound of odd +‎ ball. Attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.

Pronunciation

• (US) IFA:

Noun

oddball (multenombro oddballs)

1. An eccentric or unusual person.
   • 1989, Maris Soule, Storybook Hero, page 5:

     "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."

2. luksemburga A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

Translations

 eccentric person

Chinese: Mandarin: 怪人 (cmn) Czech: m → cs Dutch: kwast (nl) French: excentrique m (fr), olibrius m (fr) German: Spinner m (de), Exzentriker m (de) Japanese: 変人 (ja)

Norwegian: eksentriker → no Portuguese: excêntrico m (pt) Romanian: ciudat m (ro) Russian: сумасбро́д m (ru), чуда́к m (ru), эксце́нтрик m (ru) Swedish: kuf c (sv)

See also

• weirdo

• queer fish

Adjective

1. Exotic, not mainstream.
   • 1984, Steven K. Roberts, The Complete Guide to Microsystem Management:

     An oddball word processor, for example, might never be supported by such helpful tools as spelling checkers, indexing programs, footnote utilities,...