oddment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
noun
Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
noun
An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
noun
A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
noun
A varied collection (of items).
noun
A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
Example Sentences
- "an oddment of ribbon / of wood"
- "1926, Ronald Firbank, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, Chapter 6, in The Complete Ronald Firbank, Norfolk, CT: J. Laughlin, p. 667, ‘Ps! ps!’ she purred, feeling amorously for her scissors beneath the sumptuous oddments of old church velvet and brocade that she loved to ruffle and ruck."
- "The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders—ghost-daggers and prayer-wheels from Tibet; […] gilt figures of Buddha, and little portable lacquer altars; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; […] arms of all sorts and kinds, and a thousand other oddments were cased, or piled, or merely thrown into the room, […]"
- "[…] 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."
- "[…] a tall thin man with oddments of old armor buckled on over his ratty pink robes."
Etymology
Etymology tree English odd Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English oddment From odd + -ment.