doohickey
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See also: doo-hickey
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested 1914, of uncertain origin, probably from doodad + hickey.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]doohickey (plural doohickeys)
- (slang, originally US) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thingy
- What does this doohickey do?
Translations
[edit]a thing
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Further reading
[edit]- “dohickey n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- placeholder name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia