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frobnitz

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
frob-nitz
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of gizmo.

Etymology

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.

Inflected Forms

frobnitzes (plural)

Derived Forms

frob frobnicate

Synonyms

gizmo

Questions

What does frobnitz mean?
Synonym of gizmo.
Where does frobnitz come from?
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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