oddment
Definitions
noun
A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
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.
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, […]
[…] there in his hiding-place he kept a few wretched oddments, and one very beautiful thing, very beautiful, very wonderful.
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.
A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
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,” […]