"oddling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From odd + -ling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oddlings",
      "tags": [
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2007, Michelle Borquez, God Crazy",
          "text": "One of the most influential acts of servanthood my parents displayed would be to invite strangers, or what I would call \"oddlings,\" to our house for a meal or to stay for a while. And these oddlings were people who were the most down and out — the broken, the depressed, the dirty, the lonely, the lost — and they all seemed to enter our house under a cloud of hopelessness.",
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        "One who is odd or eccentric; an oddball."
      ],
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          "odd",
          "odd"
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        [
          "eccentric",
          "eccentric"
        ],
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          "oddball",
          "oddball"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "strangeling"
        },
        {
          "word": "weirdling"
        }
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  "word": "oddling"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From odd + -ling.",
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      "form": "oddlings",
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        "One who is odd or eccentric; an oddball."
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    {
      "word": "strangeling"
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      "word": "weirdling"
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  "word": "oddling"
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