Synonyms of the word

widget

• n. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
• n. (computing) Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user.
• n. A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened.
• n. A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and…
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical…

appliance

• n. The act of applying; application.
• n. An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end (often…
• n. Specifically: A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in…
• n. An attachment, some equipment (or - piece) to adapt another tool or machine to such specific purpose.
• n. (obsolete) A compliance.

contraption

• n. A machine that is complicated and precarious.
• n. (figuratively, derogatory or ironic) Any object.

contrivance

• n. a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
• n. a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
• n. something overly artful or artificial.

convenience

• n. The quality of being convenient.
• n. Those things which make life more convenient.
• n. A convenient time.
• n. (chiefly Britain) Clipping of public convenience: a public lavatory.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

doodad

• n. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified…

doohickey

• n. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

doojigger

• n. thingy, thingamajig.

gadget

• n. (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
• n. Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
• n. (slang) Any consumer electronics product.
• n. (computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert…

gimmick

• n. A trick or device used to attain some end.
• n. A clever ploy or strategy.
• n. (electronics) A gimmick capacitor.
• v. To rig or set up with a trick or device.

gismo

• n. Alternative spelling of gizmo.

gizmo

• n. A nonsensical placeholder name for something, generally a device, that one does not know the proper term…

gubbins

• n. (obsolete) Fragments; parings; scraps (especially of fish).
• n. (Britain, informal) Assorted stuff, especially if of little value.
• n. (Britain, informal, treated as a singular noun) Silly person; fool.

stuff

• n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
• n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
• n. Abstract substance or character.
• n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
• n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
• n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
• n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
• n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
• v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
• v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
• v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
• v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
• v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

thingamabob

• n. Placeholder word for a thing or person nonspecific, unknown or forgotten.

thingamajig

• n. Something that one does not know the name of.

thingmabob

• n. Alternative form of thingamabob.

thingmajig

• n. Alternative form of thingamajig.

thingumabob

• n. Alternative form of thingamabob.

thingumajig

• n. Alternative form of thingamajig.

thingummy

• n. something one does not remember the name of.

whatchamacallit

• n. A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker doesn’t know or can’t remember.

whatsis

• n. Any object whose actual name one does not know or cannot remember.