Sicko vs Oddball - What's the difference?
sicko | oddball |
(Australia, slang) A day taken off work due to (possibly exaggerated or supposed) illness.
(derogatory, slang) A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits.
* 1986 June 9, David Denby, Movies: Poison'', '' ,
* 1997 , Shannon Bell, Chapter 5: On ne peut pas voir l?image [The image cannot be seen]'', Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki L. Ross, ''Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision ,
* 2009 , Stuart E. Weisberg, Barney Frank: The Story of America?s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman ,
(US, Canada, slang) A mentally ill person.
Exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program.
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As nouns the difference between sicko and oddball
is that sicko is (australia|slang) a day taken off work due to (possibly exaggerated or supposed) illness while oddball is an eccentric or unusual person.As an adjective oddball is
exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program.sicko
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 130,
- But in fact, the murders have been committed by an army of sickos , a phalanx of wild-eyed droolers led by a monster goon with a concrete jaw and a Neanderthal brow.
page 231,
- We can?t say that it is our responses of horror and revulsion that are upsetting to the youth; therefore, those attracted to them are deviants, sickos , who should be cured/punished like the homosexuals of the forties and fifties.
page 372,
- The conservative Boston Herald , which had earlier described the revelations about Barney?s two-year relationship with a male prostitute as “one of the most tawdry episodes in modern Massachusetts politics” and had run a story by the columnist Howie Carr calling Frank “a sicko who happens to be a pol,” urged him to resign his house seat.