Odds And Ends

Definition: Odds And Ends

Odds And Ends

Noun

1. A motley assortment of things.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Odds And Ends

Inutility

Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.

Mixture

Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation).

Part

Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum.

Remainder

Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.

Crosswords: Odds And Ends

It's made up of odds and ends, and it's odd where it ends. (Julia; writing credit: Arthur Alsberg; Earl Barret)

I'm odds and ends (Take On Me; performing artist: A-ha)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Carl Versus the Men from Mars: Bombast, Drivel, Odds and Ends (reference)

• Prunes and Prism With Other Odds and Ends (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack), mbetje (drift, failure, refuse, remnant, residue, shorts, tailings), mall i mbetur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏الفضلآت, ‏أشياء مختلفة, ‏بقايا (left over, oddments, remain, remains, remnant, residue, rubble, ruin, scrap, scrapings, snippet, tag, vestige). (various references)

Bulgarian 

остатъци (debris, dregs, junk, leftovers, odd-come-shorts, oddments, offal, pickings, remainder, rinsings, trash, waste), ненужни дреболии, боклуци (junk, stuff). (various references)

Czech

zbytky (detritus, leavings, leftovers, oddments, offal, remains, rummage), malièkosti (oddments, trivia), harampádí (lumber), drobnosti (details, minutiae, oddments, sundries, trivia). (various references)

Finnish

lyhyttavarat (haberdashery, notions). (various references)

French

restes, des petites choses qui restent, bouts. (various references)

German

reste (carryovers, leavings, leftovers, oddments, pickings, remainders, remains, remnants, residuals, residues, ruins, scrapings, scraps, splits), krimskrams (bits and pieces, oddments, rubbish), kram (business, clobber, clutter, junk, stuff, things), klimbim (fuss and bother), flicken (botch, cobble, darn, mend, patch, patch up, repair, tinker, to botch, to cobble, to mend, vamp). (various references)

Greek 

μικροπράματα (details, trifles), υπολείματα (bad settlings, basic sediments, basic sediments and water, basic sludge and water, bottom sediments, bottom sediments and water, bottom settlings, BS and W, bushwash, sediments and water), απομεινάρια (leavings, leftover, remains, the remnants). (various references)

Hebrew 

שאריות (ends, oddments, pickings). (various references)

Hungarian

limlom (bric-a-brac, junk, lumber, rattletraps, rummage, stuff, trash), apróságok (small fry, trivia). (various references)

Italian

avanzi d'ogni genere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

落ち零れ (leftovers, pickings), 落ち�"ぼれ (leftovers, pickings), 雑�"� (sundries), 端物 (an odd piece), 端端 (all, every), 端切れ (scrap of cloth), 半端物 , がらがら蛇 (deserted, emptiness, empty, garbage, hollowness, jumble, pickled ginger, rattlesnake, sliced shouga prepared in vinegar served with sushi, to be deserted, to be empty, void), 使い残り (leavings, remainder, remnant), 使い残し (leavings, remainder, remnant), 寄せ集め (medley, miscellany, mish-mash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おち�"ぼれ (leftovers, pickings), がらくた (garbage, jumble), ざっぴ�" (sundries), つかいの�"り (leavings, remainder, remnant), つかいの�"し (leavings, remainder, remnant), よせあつめ (medley, miscellany, mish-mash), はぎれ (manner of enunciation, scrap of cloth, the feel when biting), はしばし (all, every), は�"ぱもの (blockhead), はもの (an odd piece, cutlery, edged tool, foliage plants). (various references)

Pig Latin

oddsay anday endsay

Portuguese

miudezas (oddments, sundry). (various references)

Romanian

vechituri (junk, lumber, pedlary, rubbish, trash), resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), rãmãşiţe (debris, leavings, odd-come-shorts, remains, riff raff, tailings), mãrunţişuri. (various references)

Russian 

остатки (leavings, oddments, pickings, refuse, remains, rinse, tailings, waifs and strays), осколки (detritus, knocking, smithereens), обрывки (dribs and drabs, odd-come-short, snippets). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otpaci (dross, litter, offal, refuse, sewage, stuff, trash), parčići. (various references)

Spanish

retazos, materiales sobrantes, cosas sin arreglar, chucherías, chismes (bit and pieces, gossip, scandal, talk, tattle, whispering), baratijas (bric a brac, junk, trinkets), ñaque. (various references)

Swedish

småsaker (bijoux, knick-knackery, little things, oddments), pick och pack, grejer (jazz). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งของจิปาถะ. (various references)

Turkish

ufak tefek şeyler (etcetera, etceteran trifles, gewgaw, oddments, snippets), döküntüler (oddments), ıvır zıvır (chaff, crap, dead wood, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadget, gadgetry, gadgety, gewgaw, Gubbins, junk, knick knack, knickknack, nicknack, rubbish, small potatoes, trifles, trinket, trinkets). (various references)

Welsh

petheuach (trifles). (various references)

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