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whatchamacallem

whatchamacallem is the plural of whatchamacallit.

whatchamacallem 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 whatchamacallem

Univerbation and contraction of what you may call them.

Questions about whatchamacallem

What is whatchamacallem the plural of?
Whatchamacallem is the plural of whatchamacallit.

Words near whatchamacallem in the dictionary

  1. whatchacallit
  2. whatchacallits
  3. whatchamacall'em
  4. whatchamacall'er
  5. whatchamacall'im
  6. whatchamacallem
  7. whatchamacallems
  8. whatchamacaller
  9. whatchamacallher
  10. whatchamacallhim
  11. whatchamacallim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whatchamacallem (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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