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oddball colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈɒdbɔːl|
Also odd-ball, odd ball.
[f. odd a. + ball n.1]
An eccentric person; a person of unconventional views or habits. Also attrib. or as adj., eccentric, exceptional, peculiar.
1948Amer. Speech XXIII. 221 Odd Ball..connoted that the individual's strangeness was not the result of prison camp experiences. 1953Berry & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §411/2 Peculiar or eccentric person..oddball, odd-fellow, odd stick. Ibid. §454/3 Social dud or bore; ‘drip’..oddball, ooly-drooly, pain. 1956W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) ix. 123 There are exceptions, but one must be a very odd ball to be one. 1956Wallis & Blair Thunder Above (1959) xvi. 158 A phlegmatic odd-ball in a world of make-believe. 1957Time 2 Sept. 23/2 Officialdom in Saigon thought that the threat of rebellions by the country's fanatic, odd-ball religious groups was ended at last. 1959Washington Post 19 Oct. B. 10/6 Life aboard a submarine has its oddball moments. 1968Canad. Antiques Collector Dec. 10/1 The classic tradition was too strong at the end of the 18th c. for any but obvious odd balls to find a ‘better way’ of building their houses. 1969Daily Mail 15 Jan. 5/4 If that burn-time was not correct we could have gone into all sort of odd-ball orbits. 1971C. Fick Danziger Transcript (1973) 41 They had been oddball friends since Harvard. 1973M. Truman Harry S. Truman xvi. 331 Earlier in 1946 an oddball broke into the National Gallery and cut a hole in Dad's portrait. 1974Peace News 15 Mar. 10 It's always been very much an odd ball way of doing it. 1974D. Sears Lark in Clear Air ii. 27 The oddest of a family where odd-balls were not the exception. |