oddish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of oddish
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Example Sentences
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Bless your honour's soul, he is a very oddish kind of a gentleman.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
His large ears accentuated the oddish look, not entirely out of place on the subways at New York rush hour.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
You've got an oddish looking lot in the car—bought her in at the sale, I suppose—eh, what?
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir
Bless your honour's soul, he is, as it were, a very oddish kind of a gentleman.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
In the earlier books the brilliant yet self-centred poet of Paracelsus is still paramount, and even the "oddish boy" who had shyly evolved Pauline is not entirely effaced.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
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