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doo-dad

doo-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 doo-dad

pluraldoo-dads

Questions about doo-dad

What is doo-dad the alternative spelling of?
Doo-dad is the alternative spelling of doodad.

Words near doo-dad in the dictionary

  1. Donzes
  2. Donziger
  3. Donzigers
  4. doo
  5. doo wop
  6. doo-dad
  7. doo-dads
  8. doo-doo
  9. doo-doo hole
  10. doo-doo holes
  11. doo-hickey

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doo-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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