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doodad
noun
A thing ; especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.
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When using the private browsing doodad, Firefox gets Alzheimers, forgetting to record history, cookies, usernames, or passwords.
Such a guy might appreciate the Levitating Globe, a model of the earth that floats and rotates in a magnetic field (scientificsonline.com; $99.95), or 20Q, a handheld electronic doodad that can usually guess what you're thinking of by asking you a series of questions (Sharper Image, 10 West 57th Street; $19.99).
Why, some folks claim that our planet itself is just a doodad the Almighty came up with after spinning His Rainy-Day-Fun, Pick-a-Project Activities Wheel.
In 2006, the bank gave away twenty-eight million pens, which found their way into the kitchen drawers and jacket pockets, as well as into the collective doodad mind, of consumers up and down the Northeast coast.
In the Pixar films Stanton has guided, the children are mostly destructive and the adults mostly feckless — leaving a moral vacuum that only a guileless doodad can fill.
When Noni walked down the aisle, in a dress encrusted with every shiny doodad in the known universe, her enormous family filled the church with the echoes of their sobs.
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A doodad-embellished version, deco-den looks a bit like what might happen if Rainbow Brite had a glue gun.
After it came other towers, such as the Strata in Elephant and Castle and the Vauxhall Tower, which repeated the same formula of height next to a station, intrusion on important views, an eco-doodad on top and architecture declared outstanding by John Prescott.
This clause, he says, captures all the little "doodads".
Triggers could be unlocked by voice, but this risks betraying the position of someone hiding.Echoing an attitude shared by many gun enthusiasts, David Codrea, an editor at Guns magazine, cautions that "stupid electronic doodads" could render a firearm useless, would be ignored by criminals and would raise the price of firearms for everyone else.
"There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site.
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