what-d'you-call-it

Not that I cared what Edwin did, as a rule, but I couldn't help feeling a sort of what-d'you-call-it -- a presentiment, that somehow, in some way I didn't understand, I was mixed up in it, or was soon going to be.

A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories 1928

To make you understand the full what-d'you-call-it of the situation, I shall have to explain just how matters stood between Mrs. Yeardsley and myself.

My Man Jeeves 1928

Why couldn't you, for instance, have taken on the agency of that what-d'you-call-it car? '

Uneasy Money 1928

In my next what-d'you-call-it I'll see to it that I get named something really practical -- something that sounds swell and yet is good and virile -- something, in fact, like that grand old name so familiar to every household -- that bold and almost overpowering name, Willis Jimjams Ijams! ''

Babbitt 1922

It was a measure for doing something or other by means of a what-d'you-call-it -- I cannot be more precise without precipitating a

Once a Week 1919

'And are you going to write for this weekly what-d'you-call-it too,

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

Let's get up a what-d'you-call-it to the thing they call a government.

The Purple Land 1881

Neal Ascherson replies: I stand convicted of buying a thimbleful of coffee for Professor G.M. Tamás in a what-d'you-call-it ” maybe a coffeehouse? ” and I probably even repeated the offense in other such places.

A Cup of Coffee Tamas, Gaspar Miklos 1999

I can't possibly! "till the iron what-d'you-call-it enters my soul and stops my tongue.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

"Oh, just a little ... what shall I say? ... a little touch of what-d'you-call-it and a bit of thingummy.

Jill the Reckless 1928