Word of the Day: curwhibble

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curwhibble [KUR-wib-ul] (noun) [TWITO, page 37]

A thingamajig or whatchmacallit

"Many thanks to your honor. What pretty curwhibbles and etceteras! I'll hang 'em to my watch to give it a travelled air."
--Anonymous, "A Captivity among the Rockites," in The Metropolitan (1831)


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