oddball

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

Exzentriker

Original

fremdländisch

Kauz

🦉

Sonderling

Eigenbrötler

Spinner

fremd

Synonyme

eccentric

crank

geek

flake

eccentric person

kook

maverick

original

quirk

weirdo

character

exobiological

curiosity

exotic

foreign

freak

Übersetzungen

excentrique

olibrius

شاذّ

excêntrico

exòtic

aliena

شخْص غرِيب الأطْوار

estrafolari

excèntric

εξωτική

εξωτικό

εξωτικός

ξένος

εκκεντρικός άνθρωπος

extravagant

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈɑːdˌbɔl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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.