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what-you-may-call-it; whatchamacallit
noun
used in place of a word that is temporarily forgotten or not important for the context UK, 1598- He’s a feller likes to play the whatchamacallit? — Marvin Wald and Albert Maltz, The Naked City, 1947
- Then it wasn’t a real whaddayacallit? — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 10, 1952
- But I can’t get my whatchamacallit, my oh-my, into my pants. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 162, 1965
- I sat there pulling my pud like a total dip and told her to take her whatchamacallit and go home[.] — Lawrence Block, No Score [The Affairs of Chip Harrison Omnibus], p. 150, 1970
- The cover was a green-and-black abstract whatchamacallit, and it had a magenta paper label with black lettering. — Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 34, 1989
- That riot was just whatchamacallit. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
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