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Miscellaneous unspecified artifacts
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whatchamacallit
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. ''A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker doesn’t know or can’t remember.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
whatchamacallit \whatchamacallit\, n. Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known. [Also spelled whachamacallit .] Syn: thingumbob, doohickey, dingus, whatsis, what-do-you-call-it. [PJC]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1928, compressed form of phrase "what you may call it." What-do-you-call-it is from 1630s. Earliest recorded variant is what-calle-ye-hym , attested from late 15c. What's-his-name for "unspecified person" is attested from 1690s; variant what's-his-face ...
Usage examples of whatchamacallit.
I hear the Navy got their hands on some whatchamacallit that has Doc Carlson and the other brainiacs all worked up.
I hear the Navy got their hands on some whatchamacallit that has Doc Carlson and the other brainiacs all worked up.
One other item of clothing was left on the clothes horse, a whatchamacallit like Roberto Lauffer was wearing.
First come the doomed little girls on swings in the foyer, and then the earliest works of the first Abstract Expressionists, and then the perfectly tremendous whatchamacallit in the potato barn.
Why, a prospector could scoop gold out of a mountain ten miles away with this lil ole whatchamacallit!
And in the limo on the way to the cemetery he'd begin his Sonnet Sequence for Democracy, that is, if he could get Governor Whatchamacallit to shut his trap for a minute.
If called upon, Alex was supposed to instantly load the jeeps with spare whatchamacallits and then route them long-distance to a rendezvous.