chingadera

plural chingaderas

1. USvulgarA miscellaneous object for which one does not know, or has forgotten, its proper name; a doohickey, contraption, thingamabob, or widget.

   1946, My Darling Clementine, dir. John Ford, written by Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller “There goes that chingadera again.”

   3 more examples

   “The chingadera was heavy. […]”

   2003, Richard Yañez, El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border, University of Nevada Press, page 27

   “What is this chingadera, Son?”

   2008, Margo Candela, More Than This: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 187

   “Back in the old days they used any kind of chingadera to make a whatever. […]”

   2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, page 237

   Synonyms: Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger