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gadg·et
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a mechanical contrivance or device; any ingenious article.
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Origin:
1850–55;
origin uncertain; compare
French
gâchette
the catch of a lock, sear of a gunlock
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contraption; whatsis, doohickey, thingamajig.
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gadget
1886, gadjet (but said to date back to 1850s), sailors' slang word for any small mechanical thing or part of a ship for which they lacked, or forgot, a name; perhaps from Fr. gâchette "catchpiece of a mechanism," dim. of gâche "staple of a lock."
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