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A friend who knows me well gave me a set of "The Queen's
English" cards for my birthday. Here is a good one:
gubbins--
"An indefinite noun for all the nameless parts, contents, or mechanics of a thing (c. 1919). Originally, gubbins was standard English for fish parings, fish offal, or all the workings of a fish (seventeenth century). In its present sense, the word may be related also to the obsolete noun
'gobbon', for fragments, and to 'gobbet', referring to a mouthful or an amorphous lump of something (especially of flesh hacked or vomited).
U.S. translation: Let's have the whole kit and caboodle."
These cards are published by Pomegranate Communications, Inc.
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