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do-dad

do-dad is the alternative spelling of doodad.

Meaning of doodad

Noun

doodad (plural doodads)

  1. Used to refer to something whose name one cannot recall: an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
    • My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges.
    Synonyms:
    doodah, Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo

Forms of do-dad

pluraldo-dads

Origin of do-dad

Apparently from doodad, with spelling influenced by do.

Questions about do-dad

What is do-dad the alternative spelling of?
Do-dad is the alternative spelling of doodad.

Words near do-dad in the dictionary

  1. do-acracy
  2. do-all
  3. do-alls
  4. do-badder
  5. do-badders
  6. do-dad
  7. do-dads
  8. do-er
  9. do-ers
  10. do-funnies
  11. do-funny

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: do-dad (page history and authors); doodad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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