oddball

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. An eccentric or unusual person.
2. A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

Adj

Exotic, not mainstream.

Conceptes

excèntric

exòtic

aliena

forà

extravagant

estrafolari

Sinònims

eccentric

crank

geek

flake

eccentric person

kook

maverick

original

quirk

weirdo

character

exobiological

curiosity

exotic

foreign

freak

Traduccions

Exzentriker

olibrius

excentrique

Original

شاذّ

excêntrico

fremd

Spinner

شخْص غرِيب الأطْوار

Sonderling

Eigenbrötler

εξωτική

εξωτικό

εξωτικός

Kauz

🦉

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɑːdˌbɔl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.