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doo-hickey

doo-hickey 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

Forms of doo-hickey

pluraldoo-hickeys

Questions about doo-hickey

What is doo-hickey the rare form of?
Doo-hickey is the rare form of doohickey.

Words near doo-hickey in the dictionary

  1. doo-dad
  2. doo-dads
  3. doo-doo
  4. doo-doo hole
  5. doo-doo holes
  6. doo-hickey
  7. doo-hickeys
  8. doo-wop
  9. doo-wop progression
  10. doo-wop progressions
  11. doo-wopped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doo-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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