Definition
An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
In Context
- "Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game."
- "I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded."
- ""You're a strange bird, Meehan," Leroy told him. "When you find out whose house you're in, call me back.""
- "In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them."
Also Said As
- misfit
- oddball
- odd duck
- odd one out
- queer fish
- odd bird
- queer duck
- strange person
See Also
- rare bird