what-d'ye-call-it

I will tell you what, "added Mr. Bagges," I am very glad to find you so fond of study and science; and you deserve to be encouraged: and so I'll give you a what-d'ye-call-it '?

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

I must have been there near an hour, when in drifts the loppy young lady in the pink what-d'ye-call-it, -- the one I'd made the silent hit with in the gym., -- and she makes straight for me.

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

You say this what-d'ye-call-it -- this Akrae thingamajig -- was sold out, hull, canvas and riggin ', to a crowd in

Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Well, I was kind of draggin 'a seine through my head, so to speak, tryin' to haul aboard a likely name for the critter, and fetchin 'the net in empty every time, when one day that -- er -- what-d'ye-call-it?

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

She's told us about his comin 'here and about you and him and her goin' to that -- what-d'ye-call-it -- hookey game.

Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

She lets loose a holler that near splits me ear open, slides down so fast that her bare tootsies hit the floor with a spat, grabs her what-d'ye-call-it up away from her ankles with both hands, and sprints down the hall as if she was makin 'for the last car.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

'Twas all right when you was just a-- a girl, a South Harnisser like the rest of us, but now that you're a Boston young lady, up to a fin -- er -- what-d'ye-call-it

Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Well, he said, 'I'll lay a guinea there was a' -- and he winked his sinful old eye, you know, for all the world like a what-d'ye-call-it in a cathedral one of those hideous -- I say, what is the word, Victor?

Comedies of Courtship Anthony Hope 1898

"Gentlemen," he said, advancing into the middle of the room, where, by occasionally throwing out his arms to balance himself, he managed to maintain a tolerably erect position, "I am going to make a what-d'ye-call-it."

The Purple Land 1881

"I want you to go to a what-d'ye-call-it office with me, to-day."

Faith Gartney's Girlhood 1865