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odds and bods

odds and bods noun: synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”).

Noun

odds and bods pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, informal, plural, plural-only) Synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”).
    • Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.2015, Bryn Ellis, Half Trace, page 290
    Synonyms:
    odds and sods
  2. (UK, informal, plural, plural-only) Synonym of odds and sods (“ordinary people who lack distinction”).
    Synonyms:
    odds and sods

Synonyms of odds and bods

Questions about odds and bods

What does odds and bods mean?
Odds and bods means synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”).
What part of speech is odds and bods?
Odds and bods is a noun.

Words near odds and bods in the dictionary

  1. oddments
  2. oddness
  3. oddnesses
  4. Oddo-Harkins rule
  5. odds
  6. odds and bods
  7. odds and ends
  8. odds and sods
  9. odds are
  10. odds bud
  11. odds match

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