chingadera

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chingadera

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Mexican Spanish chingadera.

noun chingaderas

US, vulgar A miscellaneous object for which one does not know, or has forgotten, its proper name; a doohickey, contraption, thingamabob, or widget. 1946, My Darling Clementine, dir. John Ford, written by Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller “There goes that chingadera again.”
Similar: Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins, whatsit, thingamajig

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@misc{chingadera_2026,
  title = {chingadera},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chingadera},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}