Synonyms for gizmo
- appliance
- contraption
- device
- instrument
- tool
- widget
- contrivance
- doohickey
- machine
- thingamabob
- thingamajig
- whatchamacallit
- mechanical device
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WORD ORIGIN
1942, "Marine and Navy usage for any old thing you can't put a name to" ["Life" magazine, July 30, 1945], of unknown origin, perhaps a made-up word.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR GIZMO
apparatus
nounequipment with a purposecontraption
noundevicecontraptions
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