ODD FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does odd fish mean? 

• ODD FISH (noun)
  The noun ODD FISH has 1 sense:

1. someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

  Familiarity information: ODD FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODD FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

kook; odd fellow; odd fish; odd man out; queer bird; queer duck

Hypernyms ("odd fish" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

 Context examples 

Steerforth, dismissing the subject with a light nod, and a smile, and the remark that he would be glad to see the old fellow too, for he had always been an odd fish, inquired if I could give him anything to eat?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)