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Miscellaneous items, remnants, or pieces.


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    Articles too small or numerous to be specified: etcetera (used in plural), oddment (used in plural), sundries. See thing.

 
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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.


 
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a motley assortment of things
  Synonyms: oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, hodgepodge, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hotchpotch, omnium-gatherum


 
 
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