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what-do-you-call-it

what-do-you-call-it is the alternative form 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 what-do-you-call-it

pluralwhat-do-you-call-its

Questions about what-do-you-call-it

What is what-do-you-call-it the alternative form of?
What-do-you-call-it is the alternative form of whatchamacallit.

Words near what-do-you-call-it in the dictionary

  1. what, me worry
  2. what-d'ye-call-'em
  3. what-d'ye-call-'ems
  4. what-d'ye-call-it
  5. what-d'ye-call-its
  6. what-do-you-call-it
  7. what-do-you-call-its
  8. what-have-you
  9. what-if
  10. what-iffed
  11. what-iffery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: what-do-you-call-it (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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