| Dictionary: odds and ends |
pl.n.
Miscellaneous items, remnants, or pieces.
| Thesaurus: odds and ends |
noun
| Idioms: odds and ends |
Miscellaneous items, fragments and remnants, as in I've finished putting everything away, except for a few odds and ends. This expression may have originated as odd ends in the mid-1500s, meaning "short leftovers of some material" (such as lumber or cloth). It had acquired its present form and meaning by the
mid-1700s.
| WordNet: odds and ends |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a motley assortment of things
Synonyms: oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, hodgepodge, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hotchpotch, omnium-gatherum
| oddment | |
| Folk You/The Guido Sessions (1989 Album by Jr. Gone Wild) | |
| odds (Idiom) |
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