gubbins

gub |bins |ˈgʌbɪnz | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. or pl. ] Brit. informal miscellaneous items; paraphernalia: all the latest films, books, and electronic gubbins. • [ treated as sing. ] a gadget: a little gubbins he had made as a boy. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘fragments ’): from obsolete gobbon ‘piece, slice, gob ’, from Old French; probably related to gobbet. Current senses date from the early 20th cent.

gubbins

gub |bins |ˈgʌbɪnz | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. or pl. ] Brit. informal miscellaneous items; paraphernalia: all the latest films, books, and electronic gubbins. • [ treated as sing. ] a gadget: a little gubbins he had made as a boy. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘fragments ’): from obsolete gobbon ‘piece, slice, gob ’, from Old French; probably related to gobbet. Current senses date from the early 20th cent.