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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1948 one that is eccentric • oddball adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. colloq. 1 an odd or eccentric person. 2 (attrib.) strange, bizarre.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(oddballs) If you refer to someone as an oddball, you think they behave in a strange way. (INFORMAL) His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too. = eccentric N-COUNT • Oddball is also an adjective. I came from a family that was decidedly oddball you know. = eccentric, peculiar ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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