oddify

To cause to appear strange.

Verb

  1. To cause to appear strange.
    • 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...
    • Processes are turned into objects, new language games are created to oddify everyday language and objectify social practices. - 1993, Jyvèaskylèa studies in education, psychology, and social research:
    • The work shows us how it is now, with the nostalgia of the musee oddified by idiosyncratic clutter from Toothy the Tooth to Asteroids. - 2006 -, Rodney Koeneke, Musee mechanique, →ISBN, page 94:
  2. To make odd (not even).
    • The inverse quantized coefficients are oddified following the MPEG-1 (and H.261) method. - 1997, Joan L. Mitchell, Chad Fogg, Didier J. LeGall, MPEG Video Compression Standard, →ISBN, page 417:
    • 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. - 2002, IEEE Signal Processing Society,...
    • 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): -...

Origin

From odd + -ify.

Forms

oddifies oddifying oddified