what-you-may-call-it

"Say, let's forget it all now, an 'you sing me' Harvest Days 'on that dinky what-you-may-call-it."

CHAPTER VII 2010

Committee of the whole House to what-you-may-call-it — elicit, I suppose — the voice of Society.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

"Now, Margy, my girl, Mr. Smith, who's in the Navy, is going to be so kind as to take you in his what-you-may-call-it to Penang, and send a steamer to take us off or tow us in, as the case may be."

Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

There ain't a morsel of danger; he's come safe all the way from London, and I never see a better bit of manoeuvring, I _will_ say, than when he brought the what-you-may-call-it down on the deck as light as a feather.

Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

It is in observing the terms of that what-you-may-call-it, -- that federation, that bond, -- in mutual concessions, in fraternal remembrances, that we gain a country.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

He's looking daggers at me — do you think he'll dare to clear me out of the court or commit me for what-you-may-call-it?

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

"What on earth are you doing, Peter, sittin 'there noddin' an 'grinnin' like a what-you-may-call-it?" demanded the Duke, coming suddenly out of a snooze.

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

"What on earth are you doing Peter, sittin 'there noddin' an 'grinnin' like a what-you-may-call-it?" demanded the Duke, coming suddenly out of a snooze.

Whose Body Sayers, Dorothy L. 1923

Both halves agreed that, after all, one might as well _try_ this new what-you-may-call-it treatment, just to see if there was anything _in_ it, don't you know.

Once a Week 1919

"I thought that the people who actually had the real what-you-may-call-it didn't know it," he said.

The Turmoil 1915