odds and ends as a noun: - 1
odds and ends
noun
1 odds and ends
A motley assortment of things.
synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, omnium-gatherum, ragbag.
Roget 40:
remainder,
residue;
remains,
remanent,
remnant,
rest,
relic;
leavings,
heeltap†,
odds and ends,
cheesepairings†,
candle ends,
orts†;
residuum;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
refuse
etc.
(useless)
645;
stubble,
result,
educt†;
fag-end;
ruins,
wreck,
skeleton. ,
stump;
alluvium.
surplus,
overplus†,
excess;
balance,
complement;
superplus†,
surplusage†;
superfluity
etc.
(redundancy)
641;
survival,
survivance†.
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Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
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
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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Roget 41:
mixture,
admixture,
commixture,
commixtion†;
commixion†,
intermixture,
alloyage†,
matrimony;
junction
etc.
43;
combination
etc.
48;
miscegenation.
impregnation;
infusion,
diffusion suffusion,
transfusion;
infiltration;
seasoning,
sprinkling,
interlarding;
interpolation;
etc.
228
adulteration,
sophistication.
[Thing mixed]
tinge,
tincture,
touch,
dash,
smack,
sprinkling,
spice,
seasoning,
infusion,
soupcon.
[Compound resulting from mixture]
alloy,
amalgam;
brass,
chowchow†,
pewter;
magma,
half-and-half,
melange,
tertium quid [Lat.],
miscellany,
ambigu†,
medley,
mess,
hotchpot†,
pasticcio†,
patchwork,
odds and ends,
all sorts;
jumble
etc.
(disorder)
59;
salad,
sauce,
mash,
omnium gatherum [Lat.],
gallimaufry,
olla-podrida†,
olio,
salmagundi,
potpourri,
Noah's ark,
caldron texture,
mingled yarn;
mosaic
etc.
(variegation)
440.
half-blood,
half-caste.
mulatto;
terceron†,
quarteron†,
quinteron†
&c.;
quadroon,
octoroon;
griffo†,
zambo†;
cafuzo†;
Eurasian;
fustee†,
fustie†;
griffe,
ladino†,
marabou,
mestee†,
mestizo,
quintroon,
sacatra zebrule [Lat.];
catalo†;
cross,
hybrid,
mongrel.
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Roget 51:
part,
portion;
dose;
item,
particular;
aught,
any;
division,
ward;
subdivision,
section;
chapter,
clause,
count,
paragraph,
verse;
article,
passage;
sector,
segment;
fraction,
fragment;
cantle,
frustum;
detachment,
parcel.
piece [Fr.],
lump,
bit cut,
cutting;
chip,
chunk,
collop†,
slice,
scale;
lamina
etc.
204;
small part;
morsel,
particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
installment,
dividend;
share
etc.
(allotment)
786.
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
etc.
56;
sarmentum†.
compartment;
department
etc.
(class)
75;
county
etc.
(region)
181.
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Dutch: allegaartje, mengelmoes, brokstukken, mikmak
Polish: melanż
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