odd fish

odd fish
noun
someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
Syn: ↑kook, ↑odd fellow, ↑queer bird, ↑queer duck, ↑odd man out
Derivationally related forms: ↑kooky (for: ↑kook)
Hypernyms: ↑anomaly, ↑unusual person

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noun (plural odd fish)

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odd fish or queer fish
A person of odd habits, or of a nature with which one is not in sympathy
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Main Entry:fish

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odd fish,
Informal. an odd or singular person: »

He was an odd fish; ignorant of common life, fond of rudely opposing received opinions, slovenly to extreme dirtiness, enthusiastic in some points of religion, and a little knavish withal (Benjamin Franklin).


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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