English[edit] Alternative forms[edit] Etymology[edit] Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée. Compare Finnish koje (“instrument, device”). Pronunciation[edit] Noun[edit] gadget (plural gadgets) (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard […]
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from Frenchgâchette or gagée. Compare Finnishkoje(“instrument, device”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gadget (pluralgadgets)
(obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy’s Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:
Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don’t know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.
Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
That’s quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
(slang) Any consumer electronics product.
(computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
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