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• 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.

• doodad
• doojigger
• gimmick
• gizmo
• gismo
• gubbins
• thingamabob
• thingumabob
• thingmabob
• thingamajig
• thingumajig
• thingmajig
• thingummy
• whatchamacallit
• whatchamacallum
• whatsis
• widget

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