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oddity Noun pl -ties 1. an odd person or thing 2. a peculiar characteristic 3. the quality of being or appearing unusual or strange
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oddity noun 1. misfit, eccentric, crank (informal) nut (slang) maverick, flake (slang), chiefly U.S. oddball (informal) loose cannon, nonconformist, odd man out, wacko (slang) screwball (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. card (informal) fish out of water, square peg (in a round hole) (informal) odd fish Brit. (informal) odd bird (informal) rara avis, weirdo or weirdie (informal) noun 2. strangeness, abnormality, peculiarity, eccentricity, weirdness, singularity, incongruity, oddness, unconventionality, queerness, unnaturalness, bizarreness, freakishness, extraordinariness, outlandishness noun 3. irregularity, phenomenon, anomaly, freak, abnormality, rarity, quirk, eccentricity, kink, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, singularity, unorthodoxy, unconventionality Translations (person) → excéntrico/a (thing) → Merkwürdigkeit f (person) → originale m/f |
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This barber, who went by the name of Little Benjamin, was a fellow of great oddity and humour, which had frequently let him into small inconveniencies, such as slaps in the face, kicks in the breech, broken bones, &c. That's the fifth oddity hatched in my ward since noon. Sir Francis Cromarty had observed the oddity of his travelling companion--although the only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he was dealing the cards, and between two rubbers--and questioned himself whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature. |
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