adj. and adv. (once literary: now colloquial).—Strange; peculiar; difficult.

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  1602.  SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5. You’re an ODD man.

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  1711–2.  ADDISON, The Spectator, No. 291, 2 Feb. Mr. Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding would be thought a very ODD book for a man to make himself master of.

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