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doohinky

doohinky is the alternative 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

Questions about doohinky

What is doohinky the alternative form of?
Doohinky is the alternative form of doohickey.

Words near doohinky in the dictionary

  1. doohicky
  2. doohinkey
  3. doohinkeys
  4. doohinkus
  5. doohinkuses
  6. doohinky
  7. dooja
  8. doojigger
  9. doojiggers
  10. dook
  11. dooked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doohinky (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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