gubbins

/ (ˈɡʌbɪnz) /

(functioning as singular) an object of little or no value

(functioning as singular) a small device or gadget

(functioning as plural) odds and ends; litter or rubbish

(functioning as singular) a silly person

Word Origin for gubbins

C16 (meaning: fragments): from obsolete gobbon, probably related to gobbet

But let it not be supposed that all Mrs. Flanagan's guests were of the Gubbins and Riley stamp.

Handy Andy, Volume One |Samuel Lover
The same thing is noted of the Dartmoor gubbins of the sixteenth century: "Such their fleetness, they will outrun many horses."

The Testimony of Tradition |David MacRitchie
We also saw the place where the rebels twice assembled in thousands crying “Give us Gubbins Sahib and we will go away.”

Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life |Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
Is it not possible—nay, is it not extremely probable, that Gubbins was the actual thief?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 |Various

A similar race to these "fairies" of Merionethshire seems to be suggested by the "gubbings" or "gubbins" of Dartmoor.

The Testimony of Tradition |David MacRitchie