Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Something left over.
- n. Odds and ends.
- n. An oddity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Something left over, such as a piece of cloth; a remnant or offcut.
- n. Something unusual, an oddity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows
- n. A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.
- n. Something unusual, and perhaps worthy of collecting.
- n. Odds and ends; a motley assortment of things.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Something remaining over; a thing not reckoned or included; an article belonging to a broken or incomplete set; a remnant; a trifle; an odd thing or job: usually in the plural.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- n. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
Etymologies
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Examples
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Long craft were brought from the caves laden with every kind of oddment, iron kettles, anvils, transmitters, birdcages, treasure, and dark figures hauled them out through the surf.
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I believe he expected me to give him a receipt in round hundreds and take the "oddment," as we call it in
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Then there are houses where the people employed in the paper-works lodge, a recently-acquired home for the better class of men, which was once a mansion of the De Clifford family, and afterwards a hospital, and a store where every kind of oddment is sold by Dutch auction.
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One thinker that is deftly oddment about most of them is that each is as dumb and stupid as the next
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If you see an oddment available, email me at keiser@duanekeiser.com and put the title of the painting you want in the subject line.
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Mrs. Babbit would bring a pot of the "Soup of the Day" from the adjoining diner for the maids to enjoy with whatever oddment they had brought from home to eat.
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While puzzling over this funereal oddment, the movement of something overhead pulls his focus.
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He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words: 'nitwit', 'oddment', 'blubber' and 'tweak 1, and again, had to suppress a grin ... what was the matter with him?
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This section was an oddment, which General Clayton had seen in
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And instead of saying "I would like to say a few words: Nitwit! blubber! oddment! tweak!"
slumry commented on the word oddment
Oh, I have stashes of oddments everywhere.
June 18, 2007