oddment

Updated: May 12, 2025

My operations were not facilitated by the biggest Croesus of the lot producing some £400 in five different currencies from various parts of his apparel and stating that he had no idea how much there was but would abide by my decision. I believe he expected me to give him a receipt in round hundreds and take the "oddment," as we call it in Warwickshire, for myself.

G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury - Pan-Islam

Then there are houses where the people employed in the paper-works lodge, a recently-acquired home for the better class of men, which was once a mansion of the De Clifford family, and afterwards a hospital, and a store where every kind of oddment is sold by Dutch auction.

Henry Rider Haggard - Regeneration