whatchamacallit
7
9.9
- noun
- /ˈwɑːtʃəˌmɑːˌkɑːlɪt/
- Informal
- Can you hand me that whatchamacallit over there? I need it for my project.
Examples
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Okay, we need to find the big whatchamacallit that controls the parents' phones.
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Now you can finish patchin' up my whatchamacallit.
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School's like a whatchamacallit thing for the whole world.
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"That's a whatchamacallit," I say.
Academic text (2007) -
Tell you the flat truth, that's sort of a... a whatchamacallit.
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The whatchamacallit, the tube with the... - The doohickey thing.
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I have like my vanity, a little whatchamacallit dresser.
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He's sittin' outside on his own like a whatchamacallit.
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This will be more sought after than the whatchamacallit Porsche 918.
Blog text (10) -
Whenever Edie was taunted at school about her weight, or called "frog legs" by the prettier girls, she'd simply close her eyes and think of Daddy, who called her his "little princess," his "little ballerina," and even (somehow, this was Edie's favorite nickname) his "little whatchamacallit."
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
74
8.4
An informal word for an object when you forget its name
50
7.1
A small device or tool whose name you do not know
42
5.1
A small useful thing or tool for a particular job
30
9.2
A simple word for an object you cannot remember the name of
11
9.9
A small object whose name you do not know
7
8.7
A small thing or device whose name you do not know
6
9.9
A word people use for a person or object when they forget its name
5
9.6
A thing whose name you do not know or remember
3
5.6
A small object whose name you cannot remember
1
9.9
A small tool or object you forget the name of
1
9.9
A small object whose name you do not know
1
9.9
A casual word for a person or thing whose name you do not know
1
9.9
A word for a person or thing whose name you cannot remember
1
9.9
A thing whose name you cannot remember
1
9.9
A word for something whose name you cannot remember
1
8.5
A small device you do not know the name of
1
9.9
Small things you do not know the name of or need
An object whose name you do not know or have forgotten
An object whose name you don't know or have forgotten
A word used for an object when you forget its name
A small object used when you do not know its name
How Informal
- Informal
7
9.9
- Informal
7
8.7
- Archaic
1
9.9
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word whatchamacallit comes from the spoken question 'what do you call it', shortened into one playful word. So, it's used when you can't remember or don't know the name of an object.