Did you possibly mean one of these? gabbing, gibbons, goblins, grubbing
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Assorted stuff, especially if of little value
WordNet 3.0
- n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Examples
“So how is it that he took out all the gubbins from the plane and rebuilt it?”
“I don't doubt that a lot of the cyberpunk and steampunk gubbins would be just plain weird to a reader not grounded in sf, but the two books are a lot less dense in that respect, I'd say, than your average singularity story.”
“I think something in the “topic notification” gubbins has had a thromby.”
“Instead of the usual knockabout gubbins, the whole of the circus that has made politics a 'hobby' - or worse a 'career' - should be much more concerned in the fact that only THREE people turned up.”
Which party candidate wasn't going to go to the hustings tonight ?
“The PM's hamface didn't move while his brain discarded his instinctive response "I'm such a monster my crimes don't matter to me" in favour of some gubbins about working hard during the day ensuring safe delivery into the arms of Morpheus by night.”
The Guardian: This week: Jacques Chirac, Matt Baker, Alvin Wong
“Of course I'm open as wide as I can be - you've got a metric buttload of mirrors, picks and other assorted gubbins shoved halfway down my throat.”
“There's a clever electronic gubbins hidden away somewhere that determines the sounds we hear.”
The Guardian: Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent
“The last book of the New Testament, the one with all the Antichrist and Armageddon gubbins, all the Rapture and wrath of God malarky?”
“Julie and Julia has all of the winning ingredients of your lady-happy chick-flick, mixed with some run-of-the-mill award baiting biographical gubbins and sprinkled with a couple of ‘it’ leads – but this recipe is overcooked.”
“Arduino board, a Linksys Wi-Fi adapter and various gubbins to connect them together.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gubbins’.
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Ideas for names for Logos
Logos wishes to re-name himself. Please suggest suitable names even though you do not know him.
rhema, orotone, humboldt, he, logof, snickersnee, countersign, logomacheator, logographer, flogo, the wordie former..., catalogos and 25 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Hold My Place
. . . apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind,
Such as--What d'ye call him--Thing'em-bob, and likewise--Never-mind,
and 'St--'st--'st--and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who-- <...whatchamacallit, thingamajig, doodad, doohickey, doojiggy, gizmo, whosis, whatsis, thingamabob, gadget, widget, jobby and 109 more...
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Vaguesswork
Things held by a weaselspeaker. (Katigans without the madeupicals.)
obfuscation, obtuse, apparatus, element, it, existence, information, point, substance, stuff, sometimes, person and 47 more...
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Family Words
Keeping it close to home. These are words to do with my life and my relatives, living, dead or legendary.
shabbishing, gee willikers, gubbins, cancer, snifter, liberty, gazunder, alexandra, strawberries, donald white, pegleg, red and white snake and 38 more...
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wordie
morbid, ostentatious, enigma, heppelwhite, widdershins, mabel, caligari, maple, sebald, daedalus, salmonella, juggernaut and 62 more...
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pickwick's Words
globule, context, glossolalia, squee, gerrymander, verbing, flagellate, leathery, sepulchral, squiggly, schwa, zyzygy and 40 more...
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Funny words
Words I find funny.
huguenot, qwerty, piffle, ypotryll, squabble, gubbins, flysheet
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gubbins.
bilby In the singular, one of my brother's childhood words. I'll have to ask him about gubbin next time I see him.
Nov 22, 2007
mollusque Fragments, especially of fish, offal; a fool, a duffer. Nov 22, 2007