gubbinsn.

?1553 Respublica (1952) i. i. 4 The skimmynges, the gubbins of booties and praies.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 73 Hough you hungerstarued gubbins or offalles of men, how thriue you?

1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 165 To be a Laundres, imports onely to wash or dresse Lawne, which is as much impeachment as to cal..a Fishmonger, a seller of Gubbins.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. iii. 64/2 All that they could buy, or sell, or barter, Would scarce be worth a Gubbin once a quarter.

1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. X 3^v/2 Gubbings, the parings of haberdine, coupures ou rongnures de poisson.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) A Gubbin (old word), a fragment.

1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Gubbins, Fragments; the Parings of Haberdine, Codfish, &c.

1754 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 827 Cold provisions (which by a cant name he usually called ‘his gubbins’).

1918 P. MacGill Glenmornan v. 106 That gubbin iv land was at one time nothin' but a bare rock.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 112 Gubbins, mere stuff. Trash. Anything of no value—e.g., ‘That's only gubbins, all rot!’ Also, personal effects—e.g., ‘See after my gubbins, will you?’

1944 Amer. Speech 19 280 A gubbins is used to describe almost any part of the equipment of a plane, with about the same meaning as gadget.

1958 I. J. C. Brown Words in our Time 60 You can save more petrol by how you drive than with the gubbinses now floating around.

1965 Sunday Times 5 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 16 Many machines flying have a vast illicit complement of rivets, nails, nuts, bolts, torches, pliers and half-eaten sandwiches... One of the modern test pilot's less enviable jobs is to fly new aircraft upside down and try to catch the gubbins as it hurtles past his face.

1968 New Scientist 3 Oct. 8/2 Behind that again is the engine and propeller, the fuel tank and various bits of ‘gubbins’.