odd عجیب

Expressions [13]

• I have the odd little flutter from time to time
• I've heard some odd things in my time!
• about a hundred, a hundred odd
• an odd-looking pair
• don't be put off by his odd sense of humour
• even/odd/rational/whole number
• he's a bit of an odd bod
• his work covers a span of twenty-odd years
• she gave them an odd look
• there were fifty-odd people at the party
• there's no accounting for his recent odd behaviour
• they were wearing some very odd headgear
• you get some odd people on these tours
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odd

[ɒd]
adjective

1.	[weird] bizarre, étrange he's an odd character c'est un drôle d'individu the odd thing is that the room was empty ce qui est bizarre, c'est que la pièce était vide it felt odd seeing her again ça m'a fait (tout) drôle de la revoir he's a bit odd in the head (informal) il lui manque une case

2.	[occasional, incidental] at odd moments de temps en temps I smoke the odd cigarette il m'arrive de fumer une cigarette de temps en temps we took the odd photo nous avons pris deux ou trois photos odd jobs petits boulots mpl

3.	[not matching] dépareillé

4.	[not divisible by two] impair the odd pages of a book les pages impaires d'un livre odd number nombre m impair

5.	(informal) (in combinations) (informal) [or so] twenty odd vingt et quelques thirty-odd pounds trente livres et quelques, trente et quelques livres he must be forty-odd il doit avoir la quarantaine or dans les quarante ans

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(phrase) the odd one or man or woman out l'exception f which of these drawings is the odd one out? parmi ces dessins, lequel est l'intrus? they all knew each other so well that I felt the odd one out ils se connaissaient tous si bien que j'avais l'impression d'être la cinquième roue du carrosse or de la charrette