doohickey
- n something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- Anyone who has ever tried to explain that he wants a thingamajig that goes on the end of a doohickey understands the problem of trying to get a whatchamacallit in a foreign .
- MAGICAL GADGET: The Sneakoscope, a gyroscopic doohickey that spins and glows when untrustworthy people are nearby.
- Furthermore, he made it (with the help of William Bowers and Phoebe Ephron) into pretty much the sort of simpleminded, dimple-kneed doohickey a musicomedy book should be.