oddify

Verb

oddify (third-person singular simple present oddifies, present participle oddifying, simple past and past participle oddified)

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 will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar...1975, Edward Blishen, The thorny paradise: writers on writing for children, page 56
   • 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
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, Proceedings, →ISBN, page 127