gadget

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɡædʒɪt/

Noun

obsolete informal

(obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. / Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.

Japanese Meaning

名称が定かでない、巧妙または複雑な機械装置。たとえば、思い出せない名前の道具、仕掛けや装置を指す場合が多い。 / 特に記憶しにくい、または名称が想起されにくい小型の機械や装置。

What is this buttons?

I passed him the gadget because I couldn't remember what it was called.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

名前の出てこないものだったので、それを彼に手渡した。

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Sense（1）

(obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.

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.

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Sense（2）

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.

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Sense（3）

(informal) Any consumer electronics product.

From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.

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