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
   • If that’s what you want to work for, right, let’s start, get the bibles out.
     ―Ooja ka pivi! commented Barnes, and added as an afterthought: Spas!1975, Zulfikar Ghose, Crump’s Terms: A Novel, page 31

   Synonyms:

   oojah