OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12229

oddity

/ˈɒdɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bizarría
An odd or strange thing or opinion.
An Avonside 0-4-4T with outside cylinders, bought by the S.M.A. in 1882 and scrapped in 1892 as a dismal failure, was one of the motive power oddities (some of them mortgaged).
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection…
bizarría • rareza
Strangeness.
The thing was unprecedented in his experience, and probably he wondered in his equine way at the eccentricities of the human race, and questioned whether oddity might not be mergin…
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