Oddy
Proper noun
Meaning
Oddy (plural Oddy)
An English surname.
Synonyms
Examples
I was always on my oddy knocky.
But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.
It is also used in the Oddy test to detect reduced sulfur compounds and carbonyl sulfides.
Lead is one of three metals used in the Oddy test for museum materials, helping detect organic acids, aldehydes, and acidic gases.
An interview reported by Jane Oddy in Mirror News (27 February 2014) quoted him saying "I am happy and actually it’s fine.
Oddy, Derek J. From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s to the 1990s.