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whatchamacallit
English
Etymology
A shortened version of “what you may call it” or “what you might call it”. United States, 20th century (recorded in 1921).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?t??m?k??l?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???t??m?k?l?t/, /?w?t-/, /?w?t?m?k?l?t/
- Hyphenation: what?cha?ma?call?it
Noun
whatchamacallit (plural whatchamacallits)
- (slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:thingy
Translations
Further reading
- whatchamacallit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
whatchamacallit From the web:
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dinglehopper
English
Noun
dinglehopper (plural dinglehoppers)
- Something that one does not readily recall the name of.
- You press this, this... dinglehopper to get the motor started.
Synonyms
See Thesaurus:thingy.
See also
- Wikipedia article on placeholder names
dinglehopper From the web:
- what dinglehopper mean
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- what is dinglehopper fork
- what does dinglehopper do
- what is a dinglehopper little mermaid
- what is a dinglehopper
- what rhymes with dinglehopper
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