what's-its-name

Always laughing, I should get to Steve, tell him quickly, you don't want him hearing it on the what's-its-name

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

We hold Clynya and Bornt - only that little place, what's-its-name, up on the first branch of the Sarron " "

The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

I'm no lynx-eyed sleuth, and all that sort of thing, but I had seen her face at the beginning, and I knew that she was working the whole time and working hard, to keep herself in hand, and that she would have given that diamond what's-its-name in her hair and everything else she possessed to have one good scream -- just one.

My Man Jeeves 1928

I mean to say, you are a young and delicately nurtured girl -- full of sensibility and shrinking what's-its-name and all that -- and you know what the jolly old pater is.

Indiscretions of Archie 1928

If you give them a what's-its-name, they take a thingummy.

A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories 1928

The velvet thingummy rather than the iron what's-its-name.

Piccadilly Jim 1928

'And there was no settlement of the little property - the house and garden - the what's-its-name Rookery without any rooks in it - upon her boy?'

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Such blossoms as these never opened in a frigid what's-its-name.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

It was a day to be forever marked by memory's brightest what's-its-name.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

HE author of these few lines really does hope to goodness that no one will be such an owl as to think from the number of things we did when we were in the country, that we were wretched, neglected little children, whose grown-up relations sparkled in the bright haunts of pleasure, and whirled in the giddy what's-its-name of fashion, while we were left to weep forsaken at home.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901