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dodad

dodad 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 dodad

pluraldodads

Origin of dodad

Apparently from doodad, with spelling influenced by do.

Questions about dodad

What is dodad the alternative spelling of?
Dodad is the alternative spelling of doodad.

Words near dodad in the dictionary

  1. Docwra
  2. dod
  3. Doda District
  4. dodab
  5. dodabs
  6. dodad
  7. dodads
  8. dodd
  9. doddard
  10. doddards
  11. doddart

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dodad (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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