| 单词 | oddball |
| 释义 | oddball (once / 19095 pages) n People who just don't fit in — they're a little strange, or somewhat eccentric — are oddballs. If you're a non-sports fan surrounded by enthusiastic football supporters cheering for the home team, you might feel like an oddball. The kid who brings her book to an amusement park is an oddball, and so is the guy who pushes his dog around in a baby stroller. This informal word for "weirdo" or "misfit" is good for describing someone whose eccentricities are fairly obvious, like your uncle, the oddball who wears full clown makeup to every family gathering. Oddball was first used in the 1940s, modeled after the earlier screwball, first meaning a wayward baseball pitch and later "eccentric person." WORD FAMILYoddball: oddballs USAGE EXAMPLESTry for contrasting flavors, shapes and colors, with at least one oddball, such as husk cherry. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) We’ve talked a bit about Search Party, which wholly engrossed me for a day with its oddball mystery and that great, divisive ending. Slate(Dec 22, 2016) In any razor-thin voting outcome, it’s easy and fun to cite oddball or esoteric factors and claim they “decided” the race. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) n a person with an unusual or odd personality Syn|Hypo|Hyper eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball a whimsically eccentric person nutter, wacko, whackoa person who is regarded as eccentric or mad anomaly, unusual person a person who is unusual |
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