odds and ends en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From a dialectal alteration of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end.
Meanings
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(idiomatic, plural, plural-only) Miscellaneous things; oddments
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 tapestry.
1895, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 2, in The King in Yellow, "The Mask":The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends.
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ga giúirléidí (miscellaneous things) · ka წვრილმანები (miscellaneous things) · pl bibeloty (miscellaneous things) · vo jodem (miscellaneous things) · hy թաշախուստ (miscellaneous things) · la quisquilia (miscellaneous things) · cmn 瑣碎的事 /琐碎的事 (miscellaneous things) · ka ნარჩენები (miscellaneous things) · bg туй-онуй (miscellaneous things) · fa هنزر پنزر (miscellaneous things) · ru вся́кая вся́чина (miscellaneous things) · nl van alles en nog wat (miscellaneous things) · no ting og tang (miscellaneous things) · hu apróságok (miscellaneous things) · pl bambetle (miscellaneous things) · de Krimskrams (miscellaneous things) · gd criomagan (miscellaneous things) · ba ваҡ-төйәк (miscellaneous things) · es trastos (miscellaneous things) · gv fooillagh (miscellaneous things) · nl brokstukken (miscellaneous things) · my တိုလီမိုလီ (miscellaneous things) · it cianfrusaglie (miscellaneous things) · fi kama (miscellaneous things) · es retazos (miscellaneous things) · ka ძველმანები (miscellaneous things) · pl drobiazgi (miscellaneous things) · hu ez-az (miscellaneous things) · fr bric-à-brac (miscellaneous things) · sv smått och gott (miscellaneous things) · hu limlom (miscellaneous things) · fi sälä (miscellaneous things) · sh koještarija (miscellaneous things) · ht kenkay (miscellaneous things) · pl pierdółki (miscellaneous things) · pt miudezas (miscellaneous things) · es cabos sueltos (miscellaneous things) · br bitrakerezh (miscellaneous things)