Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
sundry (adj.), sundries (n.)
Sundry is an adjective of somewhat pedantic or archaic flavor; it means “several, several kinds, various.” The cliché all and sundry, meaning “every one or everything, the whole collection,” is still in use, and the noun, especially in the plural, has wide use meaning “a hodgepodge, a miscellany, typically of small items such as might be sold in a drugstore or novelty shop,” and in a specialized plural sense meaning those particular items themselves: Try the department where sundries are sold.
