odden
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From odd + -en (verbal ending).
Verb
[edit]odden (third-person singular simple present oddens, present participle oddening, simple past and past participle oddened)
- (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become odd (all senses)
- 1974, Berry Morgan, The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner, page 145:
- It was that he had to talk my mind without me there to odden up his thoughts.
- 2013, Lilith Saintcrow, The Red Plague Affair:
- The light still shines, even though the vessel be oddened, he had remarked once, and Emma, laughing, had kissed his bone-thick, fever-warm brow.
- 2016, The Joyous Stage:
- I cried to be fallen in the love, but in the autumn year of my young age, the villagers and Mama filtered me from the home and the village, for oddening the love.
- 2016, Cheryl E. Matias, Feeling White, page 19:
- I admit to feeling odd not by my self-infliction; rather, I feel “oddened” by White teacher candidates like this who unintentionally (or intentionally) misplace a racialized label on me as if I am “a commodity as spectacle,” […]
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]odden c
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]odden m
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]odden m
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