oddify

English

Etymology

Verb

oddify (third-person singular simple present oddifies, present participle oddifying, simple past and past participle oddified)

To cause to appear strange.
- 1975, Edward Blishen, The thorny paradise: writers on writing for children, page 56:
  And since, as I suggested at the beginning of this essay, all people are alike in being somewhat odd, and since all writers are alike in being similarly oddified in their work, it may be that many children's writers will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar from mine.
- 1993, Jyvèaskylèa studies in education, psychology, and social research:
  Processes are turned into objects, new language games are created to oddify everyday language and objectify social practices.
- 2006 -, Rodney Koeneke, Musee mechanique, →ISBN, page 94:
  The work shows us how it is now, with the nostalgia of the musee oddified by idiosyncratic clutter from Toothy the Tooth to Asteroids.
- 2013, Terrell Carver, Matti Hyvarinen, Interpreting the Political: New Methodologies, →ISBN, page 90:
  This raises a question: are behaviourist studies using a new vocabulary and a new language that actually creates distance and 'oddifies' the everyday?
To make odd (not even).
- 1997, Joan L. Mitchell, Chad Fogg, Didier J. LeGall, MPEG Video Compression Standard, →ISBN, page 417:
  The inverse quantized coefficients are oddified following the MPEG-1 (and H.261) method.
- 2002, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Proceedings, →ISBN, page 127:
  Put another way, bit-for-bit, there will be little difference between the original dequantized data and the corresponding oddified data after they are converted to LNS for F < 6.
- 2007, Gautier H.A. Juynboll, Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth, →ISBN, page 49:
  With a strand on the authority of 'Āșim b. Ḑamra—'Alī b. Abī Ṭa-lib on the supererogatory nightly prayer, which 'oddifies', i.e. makes the total number of rak'as performed by an individual that day odd (i.e. witr):