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doohicky

doohicky 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 doohicky

pluraldoohickies

Questions about doohicky

What is doohicky the alternative spelling of?
Doohicky is the alternative spelling of doohickey.

Words near doohicky in the dictionary

  1. doohickie
  2. doohickies
  3. doohickii
  4. doohickus
  5. doohickuses
  6. doohicky
  7. doohinkey
  8. doohinkeys
  9. doohinkus
  10. doohinkuses
  11. doohinky

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doohicky (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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