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Definition of Odd fellow
1. Noun. Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group.
Generic synonyms: Anomaly, Unusual Person
Derivative terms: Kooky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odd Fellow
Literary usage of Odd fellow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and by Henry Ormal Severance (1906)
"Independent odd fellow. odd fellow. In spirit and truth. odd fellow reporter. i
... Iowa odd fellow. Oklahoma and Indian Ter. odd fellow. Loyal odd fellow. ..."
2. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"OP odd fellow; Oíd French. OU Oíd Italian. 0. K. All correct (fest. olí korrect,
visto bueno). Okla. Oklahoma. OL Oíd Latín. 0. LG Oíd Ix>w Germán. ..."
3. The Odd Fellows' Magazine (1841)
"... interrupting him, " very right ; it is beneath an odd fellow to tell a lie ;
and you know, John, you will be an odd fellow, if you are not one. ..."
4. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"4. P. 87. ALEXANDRE LAINEZ, я native of Hainault, and who claimed to be of the
same family ns the great Jesuit. He was an odd fellow, and a profligate one, ..."
5. Threescore and Ten Years, 1820-1890 by WILLIAM JAMES. LINTON (1894)
"... The London Working Men's Association ; Crown and Anchor Conference; The Chartist
Convention; O'Connor; Spies ; The odd fellow; Hetherington; Watson. ..."
6. The Wine of the Puritans: A Study of Present-day America by Van Wyck Brooks (1908)
"... wildest dreams of Boston"—Emerson—A man of some distinction—The first premise—A
very odd fellow, indeed—Mr Rockefeller considered symbolically—Eena, ..."
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