contraption

Etymology
Possibly a Western US English dialectal word of origin. Perhaps from +  +, while also possibly approximating. Chambers suggests +. Neither Chambers nor Concise Oxford suggests a US origin. Compare, (Scots dialect), a wilful piece of trickery.

Noun

 * 1) A machine that is complicated and precarious.
 * 2)  Any object.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: calimbornio
 * German: neumodischer Apparat, irres Gerät, seltsame Vorrichtung,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: κατασκεύασμα
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: autaia
 * Occitan: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: сокоћало
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: calimbornio
 * German:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ferro vecchio, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Icelandic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,