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whachamacallit

whachamacallit is the alternative spelling of whatchamacallit.

Meaning of whatchamacallit

Noun

whatchamacallit (plural whatchamacallits or whatchamacallem or whatchamacall'em)

  1. (colloquial) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.
    • The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit.1921, Johnny Gruelle, Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7, page 69
    Synonyms:
    thingy

Forms of whachamacallit

pluralwhachamacallits

Questions about whachamacallit

What is whachamacallit the alternative spelling of?
Whachamacallit is the alternative spelling of whatchamacallit.

Words near whachamacallit in the dictionary

  1. whabby
  2. whac-a-mole
  3. whac-a-moles
  4. whachacallit
  5. whachacallits
  6. whachamacallit
  7. whachamacallits
  8. whack
  9. whack job
  10. whack jobs
  11. whack off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whachamacallit (page history and authors); whatchamacallit (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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