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doohickie

doohickie is the alternative spelling 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 doohickie

pluraldoohickies

Questions about doohickie

What is doohickie the alternative spelling of?
Doohickie is the alternative spelling of doohickey.

Words near doohickie in the dictionary

  1. Doogie mice
  2. Doogie mouse
  3. Doohan
  4. doohickey
  5. doohickeys
  6. doohickie
  7. doohickies
  8. doohickii
  9. doohickus
  10. doohickuses
  11. doohicky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doohickie (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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