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• n  a motley assortment of things
• n  a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
• n  something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

• Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread .
• So I grabbed a pole and held on for dear life," even as the oddments of a skyscraper struck her.
• The Wisdom of Crowds is a circus of oddments and behavioral studies for example, of big-city pedestrian flow (an unconscious art form) and highway traffic snarls (caused by .

• odds and ends
• melange
• farrago
• ragbag
• mishmash
• mingle-mangle
• hodgepodge
• hotchpotch
• gallimaufry
• omnium-gatherum
• end
• remainder
• remnant
• oddment
• curio
• curiosity
• oddity
• peculiarity
• rarity

News & Articles

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• Landscape Confidential: Porches through the years
  BURLINGTON -- A porch is where we welcome friends, greet strangers, gab with our neighbors, sip a cool drink on a hot day, and store oddments of domestic life. It is a place of transition between our inner and outer lives.
  Feb. 26, 2014 - Brattleboro Reformer

Quotes

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• Alastair Reid in The Australian
  It gives voice to tiny thoughts, to what Scottish poet and scholar Alastair Reid, in a lovely poem, calls "Oddments Inklings Omens Moments".