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Gadget vs Dealy - What's the difference?

gadget | dealy |

As nouns the difference between gadget and dealy

is that gadget is (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey while dealy is (us|slang) an object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.

gadget

English

(wikipedia gadget)

Alternative forms

* gadjet

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey
  • * 1886 , Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper :
    • 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.
  • 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.
    That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?

    Synonyms

    * contraption * contrivance * doohickey * gizmo * widget

    Derived terms

    * gadgety

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    dealy

    English

    Noun

    (dealies)
  • (US, slang) An object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.
  • * That dealy behind the cab with a chain hooked to it

    • See also

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