oddments

Noun

oddment (plural oddments)

1. A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
   • an oddment of ribbon / of wood

   Synonyms:

   fragment, offcut, remainder, remnant, scrap

2. Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
   • The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders—ghost-daggers and prayer-wheels from Tibet; […] gilt figures of Buddha, and little portable lacquer altars; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; […] arms of all sorts and kinds, and a thousand other oddments were cased, or piled, or...1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IX, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 216

   Synonyms:

   bits and bobs, bits and pieces, bric-a-brac, odds and ends, odds and sods, whatnot

3. An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
   • […] she pushed me inside a shop that sold oddments and seconds.1985, Jeanette Winterson, “Numbers”, in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, page 79

   Synonyms:

   remainder

4. A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
5. A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
   • Oh, I know for a fact that she’s loaned a fiver from the little oddment who has the floor under mine—1904, Arthur Wing Pinero, Letty, London: Heinemann, act I, page 30

   Synonyms:

   misfit, oddball, weirdo

6. A varied collection (of items).
   • […] there are two or three tables, where are newspapers, and some of the latest periodicals and reviews, and a miscellaneous oddment of the current sacred and profane literature, stacked for convenience of reference […]1862, Edward Bradley (as Cuthbert Bede), “The Agreeable Monk” in The Curate of Cranston; with Other Prose and Verse, London: Saunders, Otley, p. 281

   Synonyms:

   assortment

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