dilly vs oddball

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

oddball

noun
  • An eccentric or unusual person. 

  • A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant. 

adj
  • Exotic, not mainstream. 

How often have the words dilly and oddball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )