Word of the Day – Gubbins

Gubbins (pl noun)

gub-inz

Miscellaneous items; paraphernalia.

Gubbins originates in the language of cooking. Its ancestry includes words meaning paring, portion, and gobbet (meaning morsel).

Example sentences

“Buying a tortoise is cheap enough, it’s all the gubbins that go with that are expensive.”

“I can’t be doing with all these new fangled electronic gubbins, they confuse me.”