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wossit

wossit is the alternative form of whatsit.

Contraction

wossit

  1. (contraction, informal) What is it.
    • Wossit worth to you?
  2. (contraction, informal) What has it.
    • That funny bag you're carrying around: wossit got in it?
  3. (contraction, informal) What does it.
    • Wossit mean?

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 wossit

pluralwossits

Questions about wossit

What does wossit mean?
Wossit means what is it.
What is wossit the alternative form of?
Wossit is the alternative form of whatsit.
What part of speech is wossit?
Wossit is a contraction.

Words near wossit in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wossit (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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