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Meaning of odds and bods | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”).
    UK, informal, plural, plural-only
  2. Synonym of odds and sods (“ordinary people who lack distinction”).
    UK, informal, plural, plural-only

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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