Associations to the word «Whatchamacallit»

Noun

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Wiktionary

WHATCHAMACALLIT, noun. A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker doesn’t know or can’t remember.

Dictionary definition

WHATCHAMACALLIT, noun. Something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use".

Wise words

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson