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whatchacallit

whatchacallit 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

Synonyms of whatchacallit

Forms of whatchacallit

pluralwhatchacallits

Origin of whatchacallit

From whatcha + call + it.

Questions about whatchacallit

What is whatchacallit the alternative form of?
Whatchacallit is the alternative form of whatchamacallit.

Words near whatchacallit in the dictionary

  1. whatagwan
  2. whatcha
  3. whatcha know good
  4. whatchacallem
  5. whatchacallems
  6. whatchacallit
  7. whatchacallits
  8. whatchamacall'em
  9. whatchamacall'er
  10. whatchamacall'im
  11. whatchamacallem

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whatchacallit (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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