Crossword clues for whatsit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. (context chiefly UK English) A thing (''used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say'') n. (context chiefly UK English) A thing (''used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say'')
Wikipedia
WHATSIT? is a freeform database program that was available for the Apple II and the CP/M operating system. It was developed by Lyall Morill ( Computer Headware) in 1977. The name is an acronym for Wow! How'd All That Stuff get In There?.
Morill improved WHATSIT? and Information Unlimited Software (IUS) introduced the program at the second West Coast Computer Faire in the spring of 1978.
Usage examples of "whatsit".
Pat Whatsit was officiating, and she took his money and handed him the name-tag and programme with her usual brisk efficiency.
Pat Whatsit and one of the London bachelor-fen were wrapped efficiently round each other.
And those figures peeping out underneath, the whatsit production in the cyclone-whatever, they were nothing to do with him.
Elua bless you, my lady, and your Tsingano witch-boy and Cassiline whatsit protect you.
The prototype whatsit Ashton had been tinkering with caused a flood of speculation which left a thin sediment of hard fact.
So after the union man Bede Whatsit left, Sam discovered a niche in Kinross that no other man wanted.