noun
- an odd article, bit, remnant, or the like.
- an article belonging to a broken or incomplete set.
- Printing. any individual portion of a book excluding the text, as the frontispiece or index.
noun
- (often plural) an odd piece or thing; leftover
- (plural) NZ pieces of wool, such as belly wool or neck wool, removed from a fleece and sold separately
n.1780, a hybrid with a Latin suffix on a Germanic word, from odd (q.v.), on model of fragments. Related: Oddment.