small things; random assortment of things; bits and pieces, odds and ends, dribs and drabs · insignificant details and/or circumstances · unimportant events or activities
items that are useless or without value, junk, rubbish · a person who is useless or without value, trash
köken: Compound of がら (gara), from がらがら (garagara), an onomatopoeia for the sound of objects bumping against each other + くた (kuta), perhaps a contraction of 芥 (akuta, “trash, rubbish”) or related to verb 朽つ (kutsu, “to rot”, Classical and Old Japanese form of modern 朽ちる (kuchiru, “to rot”)). Compare other terms containing this くた (kuta) element, such as くたくた (kutakuta, “broken down, worn out”), 草臥れる…
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”).