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whatzit

whatzit is the alternative spelling of whatsit.

Meaning of whatsit

Noun

whatsit (plural whatsits)

  1. (Ireland, UK) 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?
    Synonyms:
    whatsitsname, Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo

Forms of whatzit

pluralwhatzits

Questions about whatzit

What is whatzit the alternative spelling of?
Whatzit is the alternative spelling of whatsit.

Words near whatzit in the dictionary

  1. whatya
  2. whatzername
  3. whatzernames
  4. whatzisname
  5. whatzisnames
  6. whatzit
  7. whatzits
  8. what’s wrong with this picture?
  9. whau
  10. whaup
  11. whaups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whatzit (page history and authors); whatsit (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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