odds and ends
odds and ends noun: miscellaneous things; oddments.
Noun
odds and ends pl (plural only)
- Miscellaneous things; oddments
- The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends.
- I scraped my palette, stuck my brushes in a bowl of black soap, and I strolled into the smoking-room. I really believe that, excepting Geneviève's apartments, no room in the house was so free from the perfume of tobacco as this one. It was a queer chaos of odds and ends hung with threadbare...1895, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 2, in The King in Yellow, "The Mask"
- Synonyms:
- odds and sods
odds and ends meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
odds and ends in Tamil
- மிச்ச மீதி, விட்டது தொட்டது, துண்டு துணுக்குகள்
odds and ends in Bengali
- বিবিধ জিনিস, খুটিনাটি
odds and ends in Malayalam
- bits, pieces, bits and pieces
- അവശിഷ്ടങ്ങൾ, പലവക സാധനങ്ങൾ, അല്ലറചില്ലറ സാധനങ്ങൾ, തട്ടുമുട്ടുസാധനങ്ങൾ, അറ്റവും മുറിയും, പൊട്ടും പൊടിയും
odds and ends in Kannada
- ಚೂರುಪಾರು, ಚಿಲ್ಲರೆಪಲ್ಲರೆ, ಅಸಮಾನವಸ್ತುಗಳು
More languagesFewer languages
- odds and ends in Persian
- هنزر پنزر henzer-penzer
- odds and ends in Myanmar
- တိုလီမိုလီ tuilimuili
Synonyms of odds and ends
Origin of odds and ends
From a dialectal alteration of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end.
Questions about odds and ends
- What does odds and ends mean?
- Odds and ends means miscellaneous things; oddments.
- What is odds and ends in Tamil?
- Odds and ends in Tamil is மிச்ச மீதி, விட்டது தொட்டது, துண்டு துணுக்குகள். See Odds and ends meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is odds and ends?
- Odds and ends is a noun.
Words near odds and ends in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: odds and ends (page history and authors); odds and ends (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); odds and ends (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); odds and ends (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); odds and ends (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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