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- noun A
metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.
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Examples
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“Yeah, she went to the doctor and had a whaddayacallit, a mammogram, and they told her she has cancer.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book Jack Canfield 2009
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“Yeah, she went to the doctor and had a whaddayacallit, a mammogram, and they told her she has cancer.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book Jack Canfield 2009
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In the gardenSnowball is inspecting my fayleanopsis pheyleanopsis ... whaddayacallit ... my orchid.
June 2006 2006
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Happy to have you, although I must point out as usual that this lj/blog/whaddayacallit is more often than not deeply superficial, sometimes given to cataloging the aches and pains of getting older, and never contains anything about how to write or be creative because that stuff costs approximately GBP100 per hour negotiable.
Hugo Ballot Is Out triciasullivan 2007
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“You mean like that building I seed this morning—the whaddayacallit?”
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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See, a few of my friends have told me they're worried about me, that I'm showin 'signs of being whaddayacallit, a narcissist.
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It’s a, you know, a whaddayacallit, a virtual world.
MMO GDP, QED (WTF?) 2005
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