"odd duck" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1936 December 11, Bill Lush, “Kelley Reveals Technique of Successful Pass Play”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2010-07-28, page 27",
          "text": "This lad Kelley is an odd duck in many ways. . . . Unlike most college youngsters, he has no hobbies.",
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          "ref": "1971 June 18, “The Job Market: A New Start—Mature Women Who Work”, in The Dispatch, North Carolina, retrieved 2010-07-28, page 6",
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          "ref": "2006 Dec. 21, \"Sentiment—Not Sentimentality\" (film review of Venus), Time (retrieved 28 July 2010)",
          "text": "Is [Peter] O'Toole—skinny, tottering, eccentric in everything from costume to line-readings—wonderful in this role? Indeed he is. Always more of an odd duck than a leading man, age (he's 74) has given him license to play his essential weirdness."
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        "An unusual person, especially an individual with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics."
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        "(idiomatic) An unusual person, especially an individual with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics."
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        {
          "word": "odd fish"
        },
        {
          "word": "strange bird"
        },
        {
          "word": "weirdo"
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