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wossisname

wossisname is the alternative form of whatsitsname.

Meaning of whatsitsname

Noun

whatsitsname (plural whatsitsnames)

  1. Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember or immediately bring to mind.
    • Hey, hand me the whatitsname, will you? I need to tighten the doodah on this thingummybob.
    Synonyms:
    whatsit, Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo

Forms of wossisname

pluralwossisnames

Questions about wossisname

What is wossisname the alternative form of?
Wossisname is the alternative form of whatsitsname.

Words near wossisname in the dictionary

  1. wosnames
  2. woso
  3. woss
  4. wossamatter
  5. wossat
  6. wossisname
  7. wossisnames
  8. wossit
  9. wossits
  10. wossname
  11. wossnames

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wossisname (page history and authors); whatsitsname (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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