oddling

noun

oddling

noun

Etymology From odd + -ling.

1

One who is odd or eccentric; an oddball.

  • One of the most influential acts of servanthood my parents displayed would be to invite strangers, or what I would call "oddlings," to our house for a meal or to stay for a while. And these oddlings were people who were the most down and out — the broken, the depressed, the dirty, the lonely, the lost — and they all seemed to enter our house under a cloud of hopelessness.2007, Michelle Borquez, God Crazy:
Synonyms
strangeling, weirdling

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