köken: Apparently from à bricq et à bracq (“at random; haphazardly”); bricq and bracq are expressive onomatopoeias of obscure origin; possibly from Germanic. Compare bricolage. First attested in the c. 1500s.
small things; random assortment of things; bits and pieces, odds and ends, dribs and drabs · insignificant details and/or circumstances · unimportant events or activities
köken: According to MED, borrowed from a Hindi ထိုရာမိုရာ, which in Devanagari would be something like थोरामोरा (thorāmorā). No such word appears to exist in Hindi, and the MED may have been attempting to refer to थोड़ा-मोड़ा (thoṛā-moṛā, “a little bit”), a reduplicative form of थोड़ा (thoṛā, “a little bit”).