frobnitz

n. <俚>(计算机操作人员用语)小东西,小玩意儿

词形变化

frobnitzes 复数 frobnitzes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of gizmo.

词源

Coined c. 1958 by David R. Sawyer of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) as a fanciful name for model railroad parts, perhaps originally as a proper noun. More general use presumably dates from the 1960s, as it is not found in the TMRC dictionaries of 1959 or 1960.

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