Associations to the word «Whatchamacallit»

Noun

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Wiktionary

WHATCHAMACALLIT, noun. A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker doesn’t know or can’t remember.

Dictionary definition

WHATCHAMACALLIT, noun. Something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use".

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche