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Noun used to describe those little things that you never know precisely how to express.
1. Do you call common objects whatchamacallits? ...
Something you can't remember the name of.
You know that thing , that whatchamacallit .
A word used when the actual name of the object in question will not come to mind. Very versatile but often very vague. It is derived from the phrase "what-you-may-call-it" which can be found in T. H. White's The Once and Future King.
Claire- "Hey, Adam, hand me the- the- you know, the whatchamacallit."
Adam- "The what?"
An object that you dont know the name of.
Yes he did wear a whatchamacallit.
NOUN - A term, used to replace a noun when it won't come to mind.
I went to the restaurant and ordered the plate with shrimp and the other side...whatchamacallit.
Something you call when you don't remember its real name.
"Oh hey! Isn't that a whatchamacallit?"