odd

adj

1. (not-comparable, usually)Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.

   “She slept in, which was very odd.”

   “We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.”

   “Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.”

   “Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to correct them) have time for some questions?”

2. (not-comparable, usually)Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.

   “[One of them would] say, 'Hi, Mother.' This might be Chrissie with the purple hair and black lipstick, or Adam, who usually wore odd leather stuff. Sometimes 'Hi' was all I heard; other times they'd stay and talk for a minute.”

3. (not-comparable, usually)Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.

   “Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.”

   “My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.”

   “Itm , lxij almond rivetts. Almain rivetts, a sort of light armour having sleeves of mail, or iron plates, rivetted, with braces for the defence of the arms. Itm, one odd back for an almond rivett.”

4. (not-comparable, usually)Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.

   “I'm the odd one out.”

5. (not-comparable, usually)Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.

   “"Here, I have some odd change that should make things easier." As Tish turned and reached for the cigarettes, Eric took some loose coins from his pocket and placed the change from the twenty into his other pocket.”

   “Third was my college loan of five thousand dollars and some odd change.”

6. (not-comparable, usually)Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.

   “I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.”

   “but for the odd exception”

   “As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.”

   “There are odd bits of green here and there in patches, but no continuous stretches. The elk, swans and woodgrouse are no more. The old hamlets, farmsteads, hermitages and mills have vanished without trace.”

7. (not-comparable, usually)Not regular or planned.

   “He's only worked odd jobs.”

8. (not-comparable, usually)Used or employed for odd jobs.

   “The odd horse will now be employed in carting couch grass on to pasture land, carting hay, &c, to sheep in the field, carting roots, straw, &c, for feeding cattle in the boxes or dairy cows in the stalls or yards, and in various odd jobs on the farm ...”

   “At about 14 he rises a step by getting the 'odd' horse and cart, and does all the small carting work about the farm.”

   “There is also the “orra man who, like the odd horse, is kept busy on odd jobs.”

9. (not-comparable, usually)Numerically indivisible by two.

   “The product of two odd numbers is also odd.”

   “In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices in odd eighths of a dollar. Buyers were far more likely to quote shares at 28 1/2 or 28 3/4 than at 28 5/8.”

10. (not-comparable, usually)Numbered with an odd number.

    “How do I print only the odd pages?”

11. (in-compounds, not-comparable, usually)About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).

    “There were thirty-odd people in the room.”

12. (not-comparable, usually)Out of the way, secluded.

    “"Well, isn't it a bit unusual to run into an old friend in an odd corner of the world like this?" I asked.”

    “Plant a clump in your postage stamp garden, or stuff them in an odd corner of a flower bed. (They prefer full sun but will tolerate filtered shade.)”

13. (not-comparable, usually)On the left.

    “He served from the odd court.”

14. (not-comparable, obsolete, usually)Singular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.

    “He goes to Phrygia, and sees Scamander. "Happy are all," he says, "who are honoured by that odd clerk. Homer." In Macedonia, he finds hie mother.”

    “I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.”

noun

1. (informal)Something left over, not forming part of a set.

   “I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.”

2. (diminutive)An odd number.

   “So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of oppositional defiant disorder.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of optical disc drive.

name

1. A male given name.
2. Minced form of God.

   “Odd's pittikins, Odd's blood, Odd's hounds, Odd's dickens, Od's fish, Od's heft”

3. A surname from Middle English.