fakus

fakus

Any gadget or thing whose actual name is unknown or has been forgotten. Pass me that fakus thing over there. I need it to finish this repair.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fakus

(ˈfekəs)
n. a gadget; something with no name or a forgotten name. This little fakus goes right in here.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • widget
  • tell me about it
  • if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
  • quack
  • have a thing
  • far be it for/from me to...
  • far be it from (one) to (do something)
  • far be it from me
  • far be it from me to
  • far be it from one to
References in classic literature
When at length she had done, he summoned the captain of the regiment that stood around: he was a great man named Faku, and he also summoned certain men who do the king's bidding.
Nada The Lily
This year, the prize for best new play by a small company was a tie between Centastage's production of The Fakus: A Noir by Joe Byers and Boston Children's Theatre's staging of Reflections of a Rock Lobster by Burgess Clark.
Accolades from coast to coast