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wotsit

wotsit 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

Noun capitalized: Wotsit

Wotsit (plural Wotsits)

  1. A cheese-flavoured corn puff of the British brand Wotsits.
    • Lucy rolls her eyes as she chews the life out of a Wotsit.2015, Jonathan Harvey, “Natalie”, in The Secrets We Keep, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 47
    • Papay is a long, thin island. In map form, it looks a bit like a Wotsit, or an old man with a walking-stick, vomiting.2016, Amy Liptrot, “Rose Cottage”, in The Outrun, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, published 2024, →ISBN

Forms of wotsit

pluralwotsits
pluralWotsits

Origin of wotsit

From wotsit, a variant of whatsit.

Questions about wotsit

What does wotsit mean?
Wotsit means a cheese-flavoured corn puff of the British brand Wotsits.
What is wotsit the alternative spelling of?
Wotsit is the alternative spelling of whatsit.
What part of speech is wotsit?
Wotsit is a noun.
What is the plural of wotsit?
The plural of wotsit is wotsits.

Words near wotsit in the dictionary

  1. WOTLs
  2. Wotring
  3. Wotrings
  4. Wotruba
  5. wots
  6. wotsit
  7. wotsits
  8. wott
  9. wotte
  10. wotted
  11. wottedst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wotsit (page history and authors); Wotsit (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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