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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whatnot
noun
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▪ Because, because, because of the acid and whatnot.
▪ I always check the pieces of whatnot, to make sure they aren't important whatnots.
▪ I can feel the lorries every time they go past - the ground sort of shakes like a whatnot - an earthquake.
▪ I had no problem relating to the roughs and whatnot.
▪ New York is full of cheats and whatnot.
▪ The ones with infra-red night-sights, little flashing digital displays, electric zooms and whatnots.
▪ Then a ton of C rations and ammunition and whatnot came down on top of me.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whatnot

Whatnot \What"not\, n. [See the Note under What, pron., 5.] A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an ['e]tag[`e]re.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whatnot

also what-not, 1530s, "anything," from what + not. Elliptical for "what may I not say," implying "everything else." As the name of a furniture item, first attested 1808, so named for the objects it is meant to hold.

Wiktionary
whatnot

n. 1 (context countable English) A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural) 2 (context uncountable English) Other related objects or ideas. 3 A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed.

WordNet
whatnot

n. miscellaneous curios [syn: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, knickknackery]

Usage examples of "whatnot".

Venerable Bede was new-old: reinforced concrete buildings with precast columns, architraves, plinths, caryatids, and whatnot glued on the outside to simulate age.

Regress Express and set the Way Back Machine to medieval or horticultural or foraging or whatnot: they all had their chance.

The former emphasizes the created world of manyness, the latter the uncreated source or origin and both, taken in and by themselves, are dualistic through and through, no matter how much they might call themselves monistic, nondual, all-encompassing, holistic, and whatnot.

Army Air Corps bombers from the atoll claimed to be pounding it and sinking battleships, cruisers, and whatnot in high-level attacks.

My pipe and kinnikinnick, some sewing needles, a spool of thread, pemmican and whatnot.

And there were the customs, traditions, treaties, oaths, and whatnot that established Venetian dominance over these poor sheeplike villagers I was oppressing.

New York named Blake, who traveled around the country auditing stores and evaluating personnel and whatnot, and he would come to see us pretty regularly.

But if you have evidence other than physical, witnesses and whatnot, your sharing with me now can save immeasurable time.

The former emphasizes the created world of manyness, the latter the uncreated source or origin and both, taken in and by themselves, are dualistic through and through, no matter how much they might call themselves monistic, nondual, all-encompassing, holistic, and whatnot.

I can only blame the so-called ecologists and their gassing on about carbon dioxides and whatnot, because has it never occurred to anyone else except me that this may just be part of the Great Plan for humankind to have evolved to the point where we can spray fluorocarbonated air fresheners hither and yon to offset the next scheduled Ice Age?

Bernabe, by parking in the mud, getting stuck, rocking his vehicle, sideslipping and whatnot, had done.

They usually have an evil scientist in their gang or, at the very least, the benefits of futuristic science, such as superweapons, hypnotic rays, invisible spaceships or whatnot.

She used to go down to New York City every week for radiation or chemo and whatnot.

And a perfect cataract of whatnots began to aviate past his eyes and distribute themselves about the route.

I can think of a few things we can try, but the agreement needs to be between the stickies and the chasm people so that it cant be repudiated later by some collection of Banders or whatnots.