Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as odd-come-shortly.
- n. Any misfit garment that has come into a dealer's possession; any one of odds and ends in the way of dress.
Examples
“And I've got a lifework instead of being an odd-come-short.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘odd-come-short’.
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Words
Formerly a list of words, since evacuated and now serving as a holding pen.
blazonry, squinkered, uticated, wheatweed, gicky, circulous, ungut, thonk, spirl, raunchify, suburp, unarable and 37 more...
Tweets
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yarb "Oh, I'm a lucky man, lucky man! And I've got a lifework instead of being an odd-come-short. I'll always have something to do now."
- Rebecca West, The Judge Sep 12, 2009