(a) plural odds and ends (cf. end, n. 6c); (b) see quot. 1844; (c) a remnant of cloth; (d) U.S. slang, the inferior part or share (of something)…

thread and thrum, each length of the warp-yarn, and the tuft where it is fastened to the loom; hence figurative the whole of anything; good and bad…

plural. Articles of various kinds; odds and ends.

figurative (plural). Things of little value, odds and ends. Now chiefly dialect †Also as a term of contempt applied to a person. (Cf. sense 1.)

figurative: plural (or collective singular) Odds and ends, scraps.

As a mass noun or in plural: miscellaneous pieces of writing; scraps of paper; (later also more generally) bits and pieces, odds and ends. Also…

In plural. Various items not important enough to be mentioned individually; miscellaneous small… Small items lumped together in an account as…

odd fragments or remnants; miscellaneous articles or things; bits and pieces. Cf. end, n. 5.

An odd article or piece; a remnant. Usually in plural: odds and ends, miscellaneous items; esp. (in retailing) articles from broken or incomplete…

An odd or leftover thing; an odd remainder or fragment, (formerly) spec. a remnant of cloth from the end of a roll, etc.; (in plural) odds and ends…

Confusedly used in plural for ‘various things’.

transferred and figurative. Sometimes used jocularly for ‘odds and ends’.

British colloquial odds and sods n. (originally Services' slang) miscellaneous people or (later) articles; (subsequently, more generally) odds and…

British colloquial odds and bobs n. odds and ends, bits and bobs (see bits and bobs at bit, n.2 adj.2phrases 1c(a)(ii)).