Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mechanical device or part whose name is forgotten or unknown; a gadget.
Wiktionary
- n. A nonsensical placeholder name for something that one does not know the proper term for; gadget; whatchamacallit; thingamajig; jobbyjobber.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- n. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“We can watch for what we call the gizmo down at the right-hand corner of your screen.”
“The voting stays open for one week, so please take the time to pick your favorite ... the voting gizmo is right over there on the sidebar.”
“This little gizmo is going to make the controller REALLY motion sensitive, not just a little motion sensitive.”
“If people are passive, apathetic lumps who can do nothing but swallow whole whatever new widget or gizmo is shoved in front of them, the I supposed a certain social degeneration is unavoidable.”
“The 2. 8-ounce gizmo is under a half-inch thick and smaller than a deck of cards.”
“CrazyPC's latest 5.25 drive-bay gizmo is a toaster for your PC.”
“So if you are an "active adult learner", this little gizmo is quite amazing!”
“But the TV-B-Gone gizmo is on my wish list, for sure.”
“I knew the call gizmo was knotted around one of the slats on the side of the mattress, so I went searching for it, sending my hand down the side of the bed and far out of sight.”
“This has the obvious disadvantage that it may leave the reader totally at sea, but if the function of whatever gizmo is being used is derivable from context, it may be all that’s needed.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘gizmo’.
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Silly-sounding words
Serious words that sound silly when you say them
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Sounds often heard during a search for a hard t...
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Schwa-Free
Words of more than one syllable that include no schwas in their pronunciation.
(Note for pedants: some of these words have more than one pronunciation. As long as just one of the possi...decoy, ballet, survey, sashay, argon, lilac, sumac, café, princess, dildo, wordy, flighty and 30 more...
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