oddling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

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."

From odd + -ling.

oddlings (plural)

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