Informal thingamajig
Origin of whatchamacallit
from what you may call itwhatchamacallit
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whatchamacallit
noun
Something whose name is unknown or forgotten.
Origin of whatchamacallit
Alteration of what you may call itTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural whatchamacallits)
- 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.
Origin
Shortened version of "what you may call it" or "what you might call it".
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"whatchamacallit." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 16 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/whatchamacallit>.
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whatchamacallit. (n.d.). Retrieved January 16th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/whatchamacallit
