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oddment

noun

Etymology

From odd + -ment.

  1. derived from *wes-✻ — “to stick, prick, pierce, sting”
  2. derived from *uzdaz✻ — “point”
  3. derived from oddi — “odd, third or additional number; triangle”
  4. inherited from odde
  5. suffixed as oddment — “odd + ment”

Definitions

  1. A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.

    • an oddment of ribbon / of wood

  2. Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized

    Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.

    • […] there in his hiding-place he kept a few wretched oddments, and one very beautiful thing, very beautiful, very wonderful.
    • [The chest] was filled with oddments of reference: large-scale maps, back copies of Who’s Who, old Baedekers.

  3. An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually

    An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.

    • […] she pushed me inside a shop that sold oddments and seconds.
    • Whoever had purchased this supply of arms had scoured all the darker bazaars of the international weapons market, buying a lot here, another lot there, an oddment in a third place.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc.…

      A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).

    2. A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.

      • Oh, I know for a fact that she’s loaned a fiver from the little oddment who has the floor under mine—
      • “Come on, you daft oddment,” […]
      • Unlike his mother and sisters he’s not very outgoing and he’s an oddment, scrawny and muscular he has the look of a drover […]

    3. A varied collection (of items).

      • […] bearing a tray containing an oddment of cookies, cake, and sandwiches […]
      • “Since you won’t let my taxi in,” she says, “please let the driver bring out of the trunk of his taxi my oddment of purchases.”

    4. A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).

      • I’m your age treble [i.e. three times your age], with some oddments to’t,
      • I believe he expected me to give him a receipt in round hundreds and take the “oddment,” as we call it in Warwickshire, for myself.

    5. Something strange or unusual.

      • How did he come to join the cavalry? That was an oddment.
      • I thought it an oddment that Alifair, with all her powers and her healing meetings, had needed Ro, a sinner, to make her well.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oddment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA