Definitions
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- noun Assorted
stuff , especially if of little value
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
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Examples
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So how is it that he took out all the gubbins from the plane and rebuilt it?
The Commander 2006
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I don't doubt that a lot of the cyberpunk and steampunk gubbins would be just plain weird to a reader not grounded in sf, but the two books are a lot less dense in that respect, I'd say, than your average singularity story.
What is Literary Fiction? Hal Duncan 2009
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Instead of the usual knockabout gubbins, the whole of the circus that has made politics a 'hobby' - or worse a 'career' - should be much more concerned in the fact that only THREE people turned up.
Which party candidate wasn't going to go to the hustings tonight ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The PM's hamface didn't move while his brain discarded his instinctive response "I'm such a monster my crimes don't matter to me" in favour of some gubbins about working hard during the day ensuring safe delivery into the arms of Morpheus by night.
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Of course I'm open as wide as I can be - you've got a metric buttload of mirrors, picks and other assorted gubbins shoved halfway down my throat.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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I think something in the “topic notification” gubbins has had a thromby.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Of course I'm open as wide as I can be - you've got a metric buttload of mirrors, picks and other assorted gubbins shoved halfway down my throat.
Rambling Rant Dungeekin 2009
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There's a clever electronic gubbins hidden away somewhere that determines the sounds we hear.
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The last book of the New Testament, the one with all the Antichrist and Armageddon gubbins, all the Rapture and wrath of God malarky?
Archive 2008-12-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Julie and Julia has all of the winning ingredients of your lady-happy chick-flick, mixed with some run-of-the-mill award baiting biographical gubbins and sprinkled with a couple of ‘it’ leads – but this recipe is overcooked.
Inglourious Basterds Nurmbar Won At Weekend Borx Orifice 2010
mollusque commented on the word gubbins
Fragments, especially of fish, offal; a fool, a duffer.
November 22, 2007
bilby commented on the word gubbins
In the singular, one of my brother's childhood words. I'll have to ask him about gubbin next time I see him.
November 23, 2007