chingadera
nounEtymology Mexican Spanish chingadera.
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US, Vulgar A 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.”
- “The chingadera was heavy. […]”2003, Richard Yañez, El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border, University of Nevada Press, page 27:
2 more examples
- “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: