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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gubbins/ˈɡʌbɪnz/
plural noun Brit. informal [treated as sing. or pl.] miscellaneous items; paraphernalia.

■ [treated as sing.] a gadget.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘fragments’): from obs. gobbon ‘piece, slice, gob’, from OFr.; prob. rel. to gobbet.



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