oddment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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; a miscellaneous item.
    — 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, […]
  3. 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.
  4. A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
  5. 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—
  6. A varied collection (of items).
    — 1862, Edward Bradley (as Cuthbert Bede), “The Agreeable Monk” in The Curate of Cranston; with Other Prose and Verse, London: Saunders, Otley, p. 281, […] there are two or three tables, where are newspapers, and some of the latest periodicals and reviews, and a miscellaneous oddment of the current sacred and profane literature, stacked for convenience of reference […]
  7. A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
    — I’m your age treble [i.e. three times your age], with some oddments to’t,
  8. Something strange or unusual.
    — How did he come to join the cavalry? That was an oddment.

词形变化

oddments plural

词源

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.
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