oddball
Plural: oddballs
Noun
- An eccentric or unconventional person.
- a person with an unusual or odd personality
- An eccentric or unusual person.
- A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
Adj
- Exotic, not mainstream.
Examples
- His opponent was an ODDBALL, always playing the most obscure words in Scrabble.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, kook, odd duck, queer fish, strange fish, strange person, weirdo
Scrabble Score: 11
oddball: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordoddball: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
oddball: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary