frobnitz

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of gizmo.

词形变化

frobnitzes plural

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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