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odds and bods

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UK, informal, plural, plural only Synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”). Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.
Similar: odds and sods
UK, informal, plural, plural only Synonym of odds and sods (“ordinary people who lack distinction”).
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@misc{odds_and_bods_2026,
  title = {odds and bods},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/odds%20and%20bods},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}