"odd" (n.) (O.E.D.)
A. 9 a. Of persons, their actions, etc.:
strange in behaviour or appearance; peculiar; eccentric; unexpected.
1811
J. Austen
II. iii. 38 If they got tired of me,
they might talk to one another, and laugh at my odd ways behind my back.
1841
R. W. Emerson
1st
Ser. i. 24 The advancing man..finds
that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible
situations.
1882
‘Ouida’
I. 38 The village people thought her
odd, and were a little afraid of her.
B. 2. An odd person or thing (in
various senses). Now usually with the:
that which is odd; odd persons or things collectively.
1830
J. Galt
I. ii.
vii. 135, I have now and then
meddled with an odd or an end.
1833
Macaulay
Horace Walpole
in
Oct. 238 With the Sublime and the
Beautiful Walpole had nothing to do..the Odd, was his peculiar domain.
"queer" (adj.)
1.
a. Strange,
odd, peculiar, eccentric.
Also: of questionable character; suspicious, dubious. Cf.