odds and ends

English

Etymology

From a dialectal corruption of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end.

Noun

odds and ends pl (plural only)

(idiomatic) Miscellaneous things.
The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends.

Synonyms

odds and sods
See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

miscellaneous things

Armenian: թաշախուստ (tʿašaxust)
Bashkir: ваҡ-төйәк (vaq-töyäk)
Breton: bitrakerezh m
Burmese: တိုလီမိုလီ (my) (tuilimuili)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 瑣碎的事
Dutch: brokstukken (nl) n pl, van alles en nog wat
Finnish: kama (fi), (colloquial) sälä (fi)
French: bric-à-brac (fr) m or m pl
Georgian: ნარჩენები (narčenebi), წვრილმანები (c̣vrilmanebi), ძველმანები (ʒvelmanebi)
German: Krimskrams (de) m
Haitian Creole: kenkay

Hungarian: ez-az (hu), limlom (hu), apróságok (hu) pl
Irish: giúirléidí f pl
Italian: cianfrusaglie f pl
Manx: fooillagh
Norwegian: ting og tang
Persian: هنزر پنزر‎ (henzer-penzer)
Portuguese: miudezas f pl
Russian: вся́кая вся́чина (ru) f (vsjákaja vsjáčina)
Scottish Gaelic: criomagan f pl
Serbo-Croatian: koještarija (sh) f
Spanish: retazos (es) m pl, trastos (es) m pl
Volapük: jodem

See also

bits and bobs

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