Whatchamacallit Definition
wŏchə-mə-kôlĭt, wŭch-, hwŏch-, hwŭch-
noun
Something whose name is unknown or forgotten.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
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.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- thingamajig
- thingamabob
- gubbins
- thingmabob
- thingumabob
- gizmo
- gimmick
- doojigger
- doohickey
- doodad
- gismo
- whatsis
- whatchamacallum
- thingmajig
- thingumajig
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Other Word Forms of Whatchamacallit
Noun
Singular:
whatchamacallit
Plural:
whatchamacallitsOrigin of Whatchamacallit
Shortened version of "what you may call it" or "what you might call it".
From Wiktionary
Alteration of what you may call it
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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