" An oddball" , " an oddball" is probably slightly more familiar than " odd" , it's slightly more affectionate, slightly nicer, but it still means very strange.
However, Mouret still kept his eye on Monsieur de Boves, who, seated next to Madame Guibal, proved most attentive to her, laughing softly the while, with an amorous air.
The poem is indeed a graver labor; it celebrates a heroine of chastity rather than the amorous advances of the Queen of Love to a bashful country sportsman.
His dull and childless home had long since palled on him; and in addition to more permanent consolations he was always in quest of amorous adventures in his own set.
At two minutes to twelve the door-bell rang, and a look overspread the lady's face that was neither maternal, sisterly, nor amorous; but partook in an indescribable manner of all three kinds.
No speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid rhetoric at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.
The girl spoke, " Today you will have noticed a bill at the door announcing that I would sing the gay and amorous song, 'At Yuzhang City, Su Qing was twice expelled.'" Her song was received with general applause.