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?

Noun

(en noun)

A distinct physical object.

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A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

(label) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

A matter for discussion in an agenda.

(label) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.

* 2010 , (Justin Bieber) featuring (Ludacris), ''

Are we an item ? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?

A short article in a newspaper.

(label) A hint; an innuendo.

* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

A secret item was given to some of the bishops to absent themselves.