contraption

contraption

contraption (plural contraptions)

1. A machine that is complicated and precarious.
2. (figuratively) Any object referred to with irony, derision, or contempt.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:

     “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, Ill eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Toms Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

	aggeggio
	Mechanical device of any sort, especially one that is complicated

	congegno
	Mechanical device of any sort, especially one that is complicated

	coso
	Mechanical device of any sort, especially one that is complicated

	diavoleria
	Mechanical device of any sort, especially one that is complicated

arnese

Altri significati:

A mechanical device of any sort, especially one that is complicated.

(figuratively) Any object referred to with irony, derision, or contempt.

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