whatchamacallit
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
shortened version of "what you may call it" or "what you might call it"
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
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whatchamacallit (plural whatchamacallits)
- a metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name you don’t know or can’t remember. There are many spellings and many synonyms.
[edit] Synonyms
- dohickey, doohickey
- doober
- doodad
- doover (Australia)
- doomaflatchy
- gizwiz
- jobbyjobber
- thingamabob, thingumabob, thingummybob
- thingamajig
- thingo (Australia)
- thingummy
- whatnot
- whatsit
- See also Wikisaurus:thingy
[edit] Translations
an object of unknown name
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