adj.
     - unusual or unexpected; strange.
- (of whole numbers such as 3 and 5) having one left over as a remainder when divided by two. ▸denoting a single goal by which one side defeats another in a game where three or more goals are scored. 
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[in combination]
 in the region of:![]()  fifty-odd years. 
- occasional:![]()  we have the odd drink together. ▸spare; unoccupied: ![]()  an odd five minutes. 
- detached from a pair or set.
Phrase
  
    
      - odd one out
 a person or thing differing in some way from the other members of a group or set.
 
  Derivative
  
    - oddish adj.
- oddly adv.
- oddness n.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from ON odda-, found in combinations such as odda-mathr ‘third or odd man’, from oddi ‘angle’.