oddment

A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.

• an oddment of ribbon / of wood

Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.

• […] there in his hiding-place he kept a few wretched oddments, and one very beautiful thing, very beautiful, very wonderful.
• [The chest] was filled with oddments of reference: large-scale maps, back copies of Who’s Who, old Baedekers.

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,” […]

A varied collection (of items).

• 1862, Edward Bradley (as Cuthbert Bede), “The Agreeable Monk” in The Curate of Cranston; with Other Prose and Verse, London: Saunders, Otley, p. 281, […] there are two or three tables, where are newspapers, and some of the latest periodical

A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).

• 1877, Robert Roberts (ed.), The Apophthegmes of Erasmus Translated into English by Nicolas Udall, Boston, Lincolnshire: Robert Roberts, Appendix, p. 459, When they went to market, a basket of eggs was one of their most frequent charges, and

Something strange or unusual.

• How did he come to join the cavalry? That was an oddment.
• I thought it an oddment that Alifair, with all her powers and her healing meetings, had needed Ro, a sinner, to make her well.