Contraptious

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contraption \Con*trap"tion\, n.
     A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully.
     [Colloq. or Dial.] -- {Con*trap"tious}, a.
  
           We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions
           which have been thus evolved and put upon the market.


                                                    --F. M. Ware.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]