1. miscellaneous items; paraphernalia: informalBritish"all the latest films, books, and electronic gubbins"
▪ a gadget:informalBritish"a little gubbins he had made as a boy"
Word Originmid 16th century (in the sense ‘fragments’): from obsolete gobbon ‘piece, slice, gob’, from Old French; probably related to gobbet. Current senses date from the early 20th century.