whatsit
whatsit noun: a thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say).
Noun
whatsit (plural whatsits)
- A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say)
- Pass me one of those whatsits, will you?
whatsit meaning in Malayalam
whatsit in Malayalam
- so-and-so, thing, whatever it's called
- ഒരു സാധനം, എന്തപ്പനാണ്ടി, ഇന്തപ്പനാണ്ടി, കശ്ചന, കശ്ചിത്, ഏതോ ഒരു
Synonyms of whatsit
- whatsitsname
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- widget
- hickey
- gizmo
- thingy
- gimmick
- thingie
- jigger
- gismo
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Forms of whatsit
| plural | whatsits |
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Origin of whatsit
Univerbation of what + is + it.
Questions about whatsit
- What does whatsit mean?
- Whatsit means a thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say).
- What is whatsit in Malayalam?
- Whatsit in Malayalam is ഒരു സാധനം, എന്തപ്പനാണ്ടി, ഇന്തപ്പനാണ്ടി. See Whatsit meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is whatsit?
- Whatsit is a noun.
- What is the plural of whatsit?
- The plural of whatsit is whatsits.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: whatsit (page history and authors); whatsit (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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