Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An unnamed or nameless gadget or trinket.
Wiktionary
- n. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Examples
“Disney's latest release is just an entertainment, an animated doodad in the grand scheme of things.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
“You can google it ( 'cus remember what I said about link and edit doodad up there?) ...”
“When you pull out the lever at the top of the bag to haul the bag, this doodad has a really cool feature to double as a camera or flash tripod.”
Review: The ultimate luxury item for a digital photographer: a $359 camera bag
“These simple, inexpensive wonders aren't made of the latest super steel, they aren't a quarter-inch thick and there's nary a tactical, special ops-inspired doodad on them anywhere.”
“So, since I just reserved a copy of Dead Until Dark at my local library, I figure I may as well sign up for this little doodad.”
“She had a safe, of course, and compartments in a cabinet for her lesser jewelry, with each ring or doodad having its own discrete cubby.”
“Whether you have a gizmo attached to your ear while you're driving, or a doodad that scrambles an egg inside its shell, or a thingamajig that plots your trajectory on a digital map, gadgets are more and more a part of our lives.”
“Like all those donors who coughed up a fourteen-karat doodad, all those five-towners forking over fifty bucks for an auction ticket, how did she swing that?”
“Is it the woman enrolled in a writing workshop I teach, who emailed an ungirdled manuscript unimpeded by the Microsoft doodad that lets an author know she's repeated "really" seven times in a paragraph, caused the entire group (me, too, drat) to spend an ice age ruminating on her submission, then dropped the class?”
The Huffington Post: Sally Koslow: The Schadenfreude Club: When Friendships Turn Sour
“Whether you use a fancy pants labeler or marker on masking tape, label every single box, bag, and doodad in sight, especially cables for your computer and entertainment centre.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doodad’.
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unknown to numerous
manifold, numerous, multiplied, complicated, continuum, copy, graph, cyclostyle, polygraph, hectograph, mimeograph, multiply and 35 more...
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6-letter words with precisely 1,2, & ...
allele, anatta, arrear, bedded, bettee, cocoon, doodad, gaggee, googol, hubbub, hammam, hummum and 30 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Hold My Place
. . . apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind,
Such as--What d'ye call him--Thing'em-bob, and likewise--Never-mind,
and 'St--'st--'st--and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who-- <...whatchamacallit, thingamajig, doodad, doohickey, doojiggy, gizmo, whosis, whatsis, thingamabob, gadget, widget, jobby and 109 more...
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Vaguesswork
Things held by a weaselspeaker. (Katigans without the madeupicals.)
obfuscation, obtuse, apparatus, element, it, existence, information, point, substance, stuff, sometimes, person and 47 more...
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Welcome to Tchotchke Land
gewgaw, gimcrack, trinket, knickknack, bauble, kickshaw, whatnot, frippery, trifle, frou-frou, doodad, bric-a-brac and 5 more...
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The Little Things
minutiae, thingamajig, wee, doodad, nuts 'n' bolts, widget, speck, mote, mite, modicum, iota, nano and 7 more...
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have read these somewhere
enthralling the v..., nyunyókál, he cupped himself, dying satellites ..., doodad, eye fuck, slab of muscle, csendestárs, the power of the ..., sullen, exasperation, fallow and 27 more...
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thingie
pass me that...
thingy, whatsit, doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, whatchamacallit, doohickey, boojum, thingamabob, whatnot, widget, thingummy and 18 more...
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that mean "thing"
thingy, whatsit, dingus, deal, gizmo, hoobie, dealie, um, widget, gadget, whatchamacallit, doodad and 7 more...
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Instant gratification
babyfy, serendipity, doodad, callipygian, oolong, typeractive, cupidity, floozie, gadzooks, noontide, acquiescence, inspiration and 27 more...
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The Lexicon
nimble, agile, pussyfooting, amalgamation, bugaboo, doodad, Charles Barkleyed, parallax, posthaste, detrius, kerfluffle, expeditiously
Tweets
Looking for tweets for doodad.
vanishedone N.A.S.A.: 'When observing the great globular cluster NGC 4372, observers frequently take note of a strange dark streak nearly three degrees in length running near it. Unnamed, the streak, actually a long molecular cloud, has become known as the Dark Doodad Nebula. (Doodad is slang for a thingy or a whatchamacallit.)' Dec 9, 2008
selliebee best spoken a la Dorothy Parker Jul 18, 2007