gizmon.
/ˈɡɪzməʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡɪzmoʊ/ U.S. slang.
A gadget, gimmick, ‘thingumajig’ (see quots.).
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the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown
swilk and swilkc1175
thinga1325
what-call-ye-him1473
who knows what?1548
I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568
God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569
washical1575
what-d'ye-call-'em1593
so-and-so1596
whiblin1604
so-fortha1616
jiggumboba1625
know-not-whata1642
thingum1652
thingum-thangum1684
what's-his-name1697
something or other1706
thingummy1737
thingamabob1751
something1764
what's-her-name1816
conundrum1817
thingamerry1819
thingamajig1824
somebody1825
what's-its-name1839
whangdoodle1852
thingummytite1865
dingus1866
what-not1876
whatsita1882
gilguy1883
gadget1886
dingbat1894
doohickey1914
oojah1917
oojah capivvy1917
oojiboo1918
doodad1920
tiddlypush1923
whosis1923
thingy1927
doodah1928
doofer1937
hootenanny1940
whatchamacallit1942
gizmo1943
frammis1948
whosit1948
whifflow1961
oobyjiver1963
whatsisface1967
oojamaflip1970
what's-her-face1980
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance > gadget
jigger1874
gadget1885
timenoguy1886
toy1895
widget1924
gimmick1926
boondoggle1935
gizmo1943
1943 Time 19 July 69/1 Gizmo—a term of universal significance, capable of meaning ‘gadget’, ‘stuff’, ‘thing’, ‘whozis’ or almost anything else the speaker wants it to.
1949 R. A. Heinlein Red Planet iii. 26 Now what is this gismo? When you brought it aboard I thought it was a volley ball.
1954 C. Williams Touch of Death (1955) i. 7 She was working the strap of the halter gizmo up between her arm and her side.
1967 Observer 21 May 21/2 To help him ‘shoot’ [photographs], he used..a ‘gismo’—a small cardboard tube which he presses against the camera lens.
1970 New Yorker 1 Aug. 26/3 Every gismo that made use of a clothes hanger will be demonstrated by its inventor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1943- to make languor
- to make larder of
- to make latin
- to make latins
- to make lavish
- to make leap year of
- to make leg bail
- to make leg-payments
- to make legpayments
- to make let force
- to make life a misery
- to make light of
- to make light work of
- to make like
- to make like a paper doll, and cut out
- to make like a welshman's hose
- to make litter of
- to make little of
- to make little on
- to make little phrase about
- to make little political sense
- to make little way
- to make long sermon
- to make love
- to make love, not war