gizmo
/ˈɡɪzməʊ
/(also gismo)
noun (plural gizmos) informal
A gadget, especially one whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall: the latest multimedia gizmo...
- Forget all the gadgets and gizmos, I want functionality.
- How many electrical gadgets and gizmos do we really?
- All the makeup artists we know swear by the brushes, gizmos and gadgets.
Origin
1940s (originally US): of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- reculade
- reculer pour mieux sauter
- recultivate
- recultivation
- recumb
- recumbency
- recumbent
- recumbently
- recuperability
- recuperable
- recuperance
- recuperate
- recuperation
- recuperative
- recuperator
- recuperatorial
- recuperatory
- recur
- recurrable
- recurrence
- recurrence formula
- recurrence rate
- recurrence relation
- recurrence surface
- recurrence time