"odds and ends" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-odds and ends.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From a dialectal corruption of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end. Etymology templates: {{m|en|ords and ends||points and endings" or "beginnings and ends}} ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”), {{l|en|ord}} ord, {{l|en|end}} end Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} odds and ends pl (plural only)
  1. (idiomatic) Miscellaneous things. Tags: idiomatic, plural, plural-only Synonyms: odds and sods Related terms: bits and bobs Translations (miscellaneous things): թաշախուստ (tʿašaxust) (Armenian), ваҡ-төйәк (vaq-töyək) (Bashkir), bitrakerezh [masculine] (Breton), တိုလီမိုလီ (tuilimuili) (Burmese), 瑣碎的事 (Chinese Mandarin), 琐碎的事 (Chinese Mandarin), brokstukken [neuter, plural] (Dutch), van alles en nog wat (Dutch), kama (Finnish), sälä [colloquial] (Finnish), bric-à-brac [masculine, plural, singular] (French), ნარჩენები (narčenebi) (Georgian), წვრილმანები (c̣vrilmanebi) (Georgian), ძველმანები (ʒvelmanebi) (Georgian), Krimskrams [masculine] (German), kenkay (Haitian Creole), ez-az (Hungarian), limlom (Hungarian), apróságok [plural] (Hungarian), giúirléidí [feminine, plural] (Irish), cianfrusaglie [feminine, plural] (Italian), quisquilia [feminine] (Latin), fooillagh (Manx), ting og tang (Norwegian), هنزر پنزر (henzer-penzer) (Persian), pierdółki [feminine, plural] (Polish), drobiazgi [masculine, plural] (Polish), miudezas [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), вся́кая вся́чина (vsjákaja vsjáčina) [feminine] (Russian), criomagan [feminine, plural] (Scottish Gaelic), koještarija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), retazos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), trastos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), smått och gott [neuter] (Swedish), jodem (Volapük)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.