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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 .
• Lorillard advertising refers to the cigarette as the "whatchamacallit.
• It seemed to be just the place to house Electra's collection of dolls, dollhouses and, in fact, of every last thingumajig and whatchamacallit ever made in early America.

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

News & Articles

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• It Came from Outer Space
  This visitor, however, was on the mild side, an alien whatchamacallit with a fondness for Reese’s Pieces candy who delighted moviegoers back in 1982 during the lengthy box-office run of director Steven Spielberg’s instant classic E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.
  July 12, 2013 - Syracuse New Times

Quotes

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• Mark Hendrickson in Whittier Daily News
  If you asked all the kids I played Little League with, my grandfather was probably the grown-up they remember most,Hendrickson said. "He became known for (bringing) the Whatchamacallit chocolate bars and the Pepsi after games, and that was...
• Leon Hale in International Herald Tribune
  ...a reader of The Houston Chronicle expressed his curiosity about the words dojigger and thingy, the writer Leon Hale replied in an explosion of synonymy: "It's the same as a whatchamacallit or a thingumabob or a doomaflitchy or a...