Definitions for odds and ends

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

odds′ and ends′(n.pl.)

  1. miscellaneous items, matters, etc.

  2. fragments; remnants; scraps; bits.

Origin of odds and ends:

1740–50

Princeton's WordNet

  1. odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum(noun)

    a motley assortment of things

Wiktionary

  1. odds and ends(Noun)

    Miscellaneous things.


Translations for odds and ends

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

odds and ends(noun plural)

small objects etc of different kinds

There were various odds and ends lying about on the table.

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