Fromodd +man, probably after a Scandinavian source. CompareOld Norseodda-maðr.

• (UK)IPA^(key): /ˈɒd man/

oddman (pluralodd men)

1. In a group having an odd number of people, someone with thecasting vote; anarbiter.[from 15th c.]
2. Someone who doesodd jobs.[from 18th c.]
   • 1915,W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 58, inOf Human Bondage:

     ‘My father always kept a dog-cart, and we had three servants. We had a cook and a housemaid and anodd man.’

   • 1928,Siegfried Sassoon,Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published2013, page86:

     Their complexion was lustreless and clammy, although Aunt Evelyn'sodd man had given them all the energy of his elbow.

3. (rowing) A man whotrains in company with aboat'screw, so that he can take the place of anybody who falls ill.

• odd man out

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