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oojah-cum-pivvy

oojah-cum-pivvy is the alternative form of oojah capivvy.

Meaning of oojah capivvy

Noun

oojah capivvy

  1. (archaic, dated, informal) Something that one cannot name or does not know the name of; a whatsit.
    • Birkinshaw: I suppose you ’aven’t time to help me with the post, have you? I’d like to get off to time to-night.
      Pat: All right.
      Birkinshaw: There’s a whole lot in the Oojah Capivvy now. If you’d just take ’em and fold ’em and stick ’em in the envelopes, and bung ’em across to me, I’ll enter ’em up.1931, John Van Druten, London Wall, a Comedy in Three Acts
    Synonyms:
    oojah

Questions about oojah-cum-pivvy

What is oojah-cum-pivvy the alternative form of?
Oojah-cum-pivvy is the alternative form of oojah capivvy.

Words near oojah-cum-pivvy in the dictionary

  1. ooids
  2. Oois
  3. ooja
  4. oojah
  5. oojah capivvy
  6. oojah-cum-pivvy
  7. oojah-cum-spiff
  8. oojahs
  9. oojamaflip
  10. oojamaflips
  11. oojar

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