oddjob

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A form of odd job — A spell of temporary employment.

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Meanings

nounoddjob (plural oddjobs)

plural oddjobs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of odd job.

    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.

    2004, Anthony Burgess, M/F, →ISBN
verboddjob (third-person singular simple present oddjobs, present participle oddjobbing, simple past and past participle oddjobbed)

present singular third person oddjobs · participle present oddjobbing · participle past oddjobbed · past oddjobbed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of odd-job.

    I had oddjobbed my way into a dead end in less than three years.

    2014, John Lawton, Sweet Sunday, →ISBN
Cite this entry
APA

oddjob. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oddjob

MLA

“oddjob.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oddjob. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oddjob,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oddjob.

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