A - Z Database
British colloquialism for mad person dates from the late 1950s derives from nuts meaning crazy.
Commonly used acronym these days for Oh my God/goodness/gosh in text messaging and email. OMG was added to the OED in March 2011, along with LOL and F...
see Over the top
“O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?” This was coined by St Paul in the New Testament I Corinthians 15:54, where the word ‘sting...
Occam’s or Ockham’s razor is sometimes referred to as the law of parsimony or economy, which states that when confronted with two competing hypotheses...
see Months of the year
Odd, of course, is a well-known adjective for strange or unusual, but odd, as in an odd number, means an uneven number i.e. one that is not divisible...
An oddball is a strange or eccentric person. Oddball can also be used as an adjective to describe something that is unconventional or non-standard, su...
see Odd/odds and evens etc.
This means more or less the same as oddball but is an abbreviation of 'odd body' where body means a person. This expression is of British origin and d...
see Odd/odds and evens etc.
see Odd/odds and evens etc.
see Odd/odds and evens
Odds and ends has a similar meaning to bits and bobs, which means odd remnants, miscellaneous items, bits and pieces. In bits and bobs, a ‘bob’ meanin...
Odds and sods is a vulgar British version of odds and ends and dates, according to Eric Partridge, from c. 1945. One presumes that ‘sods’ was substitu...