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do-hinky

do-hinky is the rare form 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

Questions about do-hinky

What is do-hinky the rare form of?
Do-hinky is the rare form of doohickey.

Words near do-hinky in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: do-hinky (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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