The word "oddment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a small object or article of clothing that is left over or forgotten, usually in a random assortment or collection. For example, "The attic was filled with a strange assortment of old books, scraps of fabric, and other oddments."
The brothers' disquieting art films are largely created with stop-motion animation, whereby the illusion of movement is achieved by painstakingly nudging each oddment — say, a puppet or a wood screw — within a scene.
I know what he means by features – the mesh on the seats, the padded square that stood for a handbrake, the oddment stowage – but I never got to the bottom of what he meant by stuff.
He jotted down the errors the catalogue had, marked the books he wanted, and delighted himself in general with an oddment of lists.
Behind you, in the Piazza Marina, a shambolic Sunday flea market offers every unwanted knickknack and oddment you ever yearned to throw away, plus, of course, a few priceless treasures.
Oddment stowage is for wimps.
Between the oddments and the allegories, the forks and the grand set pieces, this exhibition richly bears that out.
Two new ways to patch the oddments together and distinguish genuine from false information are reported this week.
A wrong response leads one to lose the clue's value and potentially give away the correct response and the cash to another player.Cramming sessions of two to four hours a night for most of the time between the call and the recording revealed the limits of a 44-year-old brain's capacity to retain new titbits and refresh forgotten oddments.
What is vastly more significant, however, than these oddments of technological history is the minute subdivision of productive skills and their transmission from father to son in populations adequate to the demand for iron ore from Noricum, most notably, or for glass and paper from Alexandria.
The whole movie is built on a world of hidden labor, and Stone points out some of its oddments and details.
| In the Renaissance, collectors displayed natural oddments — homunculus-shaped corals, narwhal tusks fobbed off as unicorn horns — in cabinets known as Wunderkammern.
