In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ODDBALL
eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek
(noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
oddball (plural oddballs)
An eccentric or unusual person.
(neuroscience) A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
Synonyms
• (eccentric or unusual person): kook, odd duck, odd duck, strange fish, queer fish, weirdo; see also strange person
Adjective
oddball (not comparable)
Exotic, not mainstream.
Source: Wiktionary
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