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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something whose name has been forgotten or is not known.

Wiktionary

  1. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known

Etymologies

  1. Shortened version of "what you may call it" or "what you might call it". (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of what you may call it. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • jmjarmstrong JM offers the warning - beware of oojahs, thingumabobs, doohickies and whatchamacallits as objects without proper names are never to be trusted. Feb 1, 2009

  • slumry thingamajig Jul 25, 2007

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‘whatchamacallit’ has been looked up 1624 times, loved by 2 people, added to 23 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 30.