English Explanatory Dictionary

whaddayacallit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.

Word forms

whaddayacallit whaddayacallits

Etymology

From what do you call it. Compare whatdoyoucallit.

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