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doodab

doodab is the alternative form 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 doodab

pluraldoodabs

Questions about doodab

What is doodab the alternative form of?
Doodab is the alternative form of doodad.

Words near doodab in the dictionary

  1. doocot
  2. doocots
  3. doocracies
  4. doocracy
  5. dood
  6. doodab
  7. doodabs
  8. doodad
  9. doodads
  10. doodah
  11. doodahs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doodab (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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