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whatchamacall'em

whatchamacall'em is the plural of whatchamacallit.

whatchamacall'em is the plural of whatchamacallhim.

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

Meaning of whatchamacallhim

Pronoun

whatchamacallhim (plural whatchamacallem or whatchamacall'em)

  1. (colloquial, uncommon) A man whose identity has been forgotten.
    • Coordinate term: whatchamacallher

Origin of whatchamacall'em

Univerbation and contraction of what you may call them.

Questions about whatchamacall'em

What is whatchamacall'em the plural of?
Whatchamacall'em is the plural of whatchamacallit.

Words near whatchamacall'em in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whatchamacall'em (page history and authors); whatchamacallit (page history and authors); whatchamacallhim (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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