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Thingy
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whatchamacallit
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Whatchamacallit , a shortened version of "what you may call it," may refer to: Whatchamacallit , a placeholder name used for something whose name is unknown Whatchamacallit (candy) , a candy bar made by The Hershey Company "Whatchamacallit", a song from ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The guy was wearing one of those whatchamacallits on his head. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Nonsense words of the whatchamacallit type provide an extra resource to keep listeners informed of our word retrieval problems.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
whachamacallit \whachamacallit\, n. Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known. [Also spelled whatchamacallit .] Syn: thingumbob, doohickey, dingus, whatsis, what-do-you-call-it. [PJC]
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.
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.