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do-hickey

do-hickey is the alternative spelling of doohickey.

Meaning of doohickey

Noun

doohickey (plural doohickeys)

  1. (slang) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)
    • What does this doohickey do?
    Synonyms:
    Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins

Forms of do-hickey

pluraldo-hickeys

Questions about do-hickey

What is do-hickey the alternative spelling of?
Do-hickey is the alternative spelling of doohickey.

Words near do-hickey in the dictionary

  1. do-gooders
  2. do-goodery
  3. do-gooding
  4. do-goodism
  5. do-goodisms
  6. do-hickey
  7. do-hickeys
  8. do-hinky
  9. do-insertion
  10. do-insertions
  11. do-it-herselfer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: do-hickey (page history and authors); doohickey (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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