oddball

Etymology
Compound of. First used in late 1930s, describing an extra ball played as a bonus in pin-ball type games. Well-attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.

Noun

 * 1) An eccentric or unusual person.
 * 2)  A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
 * 1)  A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
 * 1)  A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , ; see also Thesaurus:strange person

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: cudakka
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: чу́дак
 * Maori: whanokē, korokē
 * Norwegian: eksentriker
 * Plautdietsch: Jräp
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * 1) Exotic, not mainstream.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Maori: whanokē
 * Polish: osobliwy, nietuzinkowy