gadget – Wiktionary
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English[edit]
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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”).
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Noun[edit]
gadget (plural gadgets)
- (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.
- 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy’s Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:
- 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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any device or machine
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English gadget.
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Noun[edit]
gadget m (plural gadgets)
- gadget
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English gadget.
Noun[edit]
gadget m (invariable)
- gadget (small device)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English gadget.
Noun[edit]
gadget m (plural gadgets)
- gadget