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chingadera

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

Noun

chingadera (plural chingaderas)

  1. (US, vulgar) A miscellaneous object for which one does not know, or has forgotten, its proper name; a doohickey, contraption, thingamabob, or widget.
    • “There goes that chingadera again.”1946, My Darling Clementine, dir. John Ford, written by Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller
    • “The chingadera was heavy. […]”2003, Richard Yañez, El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border, University of Nevada Press, page 27
    Synonyms:
    Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins

Synonyms of chingadera

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Forms of chingadera

pluralchingaderas

Origin of chingadera

Mexican Spanish chingadera.

Questions about chingadera

What does chingadera mean?
Chingadera means a miscellaneous object for which one does not know, or has forgotten, its proper name; a doohickey, contraption, thingamabob, or widget.
What part of speech is chingadera?
Chingadera is a noun.
What is the plural of chingadera?
The plural of chingadera is chingaderas.

Words near chingadera in the dictionary

  1. Ching-ming
  2. Ching-ming Festival
  3. Ching-pien
  4. Ching-te-chen
  5. Ching-yang
  6. chingadera
  7. chingaderas
  8. Chingakham
  9. Chingalay
  10. Chingalays
  11. Chingangbam

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