"oddjob" meaning in English

See oddjob in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: oddjobs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} oddjob (plural oddjobs)
  1. Alternative form of odd job Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: odd job
    Sense id: en-oddjob-en-noun-T7pCixxX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41

Verb

Forms: oddjobs [present, singular, third-person], oddjobbing [participle, present], oddjobbed [participle, past], oddjobbed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} oddjob (third-person singular simple present oddjobs, present participle oddjobbing, simple past and past participle oddjobbed)
  1. Alternative form of odd-job Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: odd-job
    Sense id: en-oddjob-en-verb-HdAXqNgM

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for oddjob meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oddjobs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "oddjob (plural oddjobs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "odd job"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Anthony Burgess, M/F",
          "text": "This morning Lupo Sassone, the garbage collector and oddjob-man who lives next door, climbed out on to the parapet to make more acute the angle of the jut of the cicogna while the tramontana tore at him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of odd job"
      ],
      "id": "en-oddjob-en-noun-T7pCixxX",
      "links": [
        [
          "odd job",
          "odd job#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oddjob"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oddjobs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oddjobbing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oddjobbed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oddjobbed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "oddjob (third-person singular simple present oddjobs, present participle oddjobbing, simple past and past participle oddjobbed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "odd-job"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Lawton, Sweet Sunday",
          "text": "I had oddjobbed my way into a dead end in less than three years.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of odd-job"
      ],
      "id": "en-oddjob-en-verb-HdAXqNgM",
      "links": [
        [
          "odd-job",
          "odd-job#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oddjob"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oddjobs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "oddjob (plural oddjobs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "odd job"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Anthony Burgess, M/F",
          "text": "This morning Lupo Sassone, the garbage collector and oddjob-man who lives next door, climbed out on to the parapet to make more acute the angle of the jut of the cicogna while the tramontana tore at him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of odd job"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "odd job",
          "odd job#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oddjob"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oddjobs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oddjobbing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oddjobbed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oddjobbed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "oddjob (third-person singular simple present oddjobs, present participle oddjobbing, simple past and past participle oddjobbed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "odd-job"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Lawton, Sweet Sunday",
          "text": "I had oddjobbed my way into a dead end in less than three years.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of odd-job"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "odd-job",
          "odd-job#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oddjob"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.