Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something whose name is unknown or forgotten.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name you don’t know or can’t remember. There are many spellings and many synonyms.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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November 7, 2008 at 4: 11 pm cayenne, I retrieved the old masthead / leaderboard / title whatchamacallit from the internet archives.
Damn Hell Ass Kings 2008
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Hey, is it my imagination, or is our masthead / leaderboard / title whatchamacallit reverting to the old format?
Damn Hell Ass Kings 2008
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A whatchamacallit between mom bloggers and feminist bloggers?
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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A whatchamacallit between mom bloggers and feminist bloggers?
Feminist | Mom 2009
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Obese repiggies love Jesus, hate gays and eat lard-slathered meaty whatchamacallit at 3500 calories a serving.
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But how about this whatchamacallit that the Miami Marlins will have at their new stadium?
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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There's a reason why Apple banked on a line of I-centered (iPod, iPhone, iTunes, soon-to-be iSlate or iTablet or i-whatchamacallit) digital lifestyle products.
Jose Antonio Vargas: Kill Your Web 2.0 Self -- Or Change It? (VIDEO) 2010
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All he had to do was walk around the whatchamacallit, the circumference of the circle.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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The other smart move of the remake is putting together a believable military jargon to replace the pointless made-up words of the old series, words like daggit, yahren, and socia-whatchamacallit.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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There's a reason why Apple banked on a line of I-centered (iPod, iPhone, iTunes, soon-to-be iSlate or iTablet or i-whatchamacallit) digital lifestyle products.
slumry commented on the word whatchamacallit
thingamajig
July 25, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word whatchamacallit
JM offers the warning - beware of oojahs, thingumabobs, doohickies and whatchamacallits as objects without proper names are never to be trusted.
February 1, 2009