Russian-English translations for штуко́вина

• affair
  a difficult affair to manage
  an affair of honor, a duel; an affair of love, an intrigue
  He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car
• contraption
• doohickey
  What does this doohickey do?
• thingamajig
  He used this, this... this thingamajig you saw him with the other day to fix the problem.
• thingamajigger
  What was that thingamajigger he was playing with during school?
• thingy