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- n. uncommon Something that one does not know the name of.
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Buzzwords of our time
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Swishy Burbles
Words with a certain flowing, silly sound to them; I may as well have found them in a James Joyce novel.
podlec, shuckling, woofits, splenetic, wodges, dromedary, chickabiddy, doodsmak, plashoot, clawscrunt, dwergmal, wherrit and 159 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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whatsits
there's another of these; this is my local vocab
oojamaflip, dooburyfirkin, wossname, thingummybob, thingummywhatsit, whoosit, whatsit, whatchamacallit, thingumajig, doodad, dealie, whatsisface and 1 more...
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avivamagnolia "Oojamaflip" is used in situations where the speaker doesn't know the name for something, or doesn't want to use the name at the moment.
Synonyms:
* gizmo
* whatchamacallit
* thingamajig
* doodad
Jan 17, 2009