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Discover LudwigThe word "whatchamacallit" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English
It is humorous slang used to refer to something whose name is temporarily forgotten, or an object whose name is unknown. Example sentence: I can't remember the name for that whatchamacallit I need for my project.
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whatchamacallit
noun
A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker doesn't know or can't remember.
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Not till I showed up, eh?" – and flaps and giggles when palpated by a hunky physiotherapist: "Whatchamacallit! ding dong dilly dilly da da!" At such moments, Poppy's irrepressible hilarity tips very nearly into the Norman Wisdom bracket.
Before you know it, there's an escaped whatchamacallit — half platypus, half mole — filching jewellery and cash, and a mega-rhino with a glowing horn marauding through Central Park in search of a mate.
Women have been studying people's feelings since they were toddlers; they've been perfecting their radar — their intuition or their empathy or their interpersonal whatchamacallit.
You will enjoy your visit to the Tino Sehgal whatchamacallit at the Guggenheim — "show" doesn't fill the bill — or else expose yourself as a hopeless grouch.
And… After the Spotted Pig débuted, in the West Village, with its crowded bar scene, ambitious menu, and coveted burger, a fever for its formula seemed… You will enjoy your visit to the Tino Sehgal whatchamacallit at the Guggenheim — "show" doesn't fill the bill — or else expose yourself as a hopeless grouch.
The Columbia Journalism Review got defeatist, calling it the "fiscal whatchamacallit".
In our vulva-phobic culture (thank you, Eve Ensler and Naomi Wolf), we give our daughters no name for the whatchamacallit that is the center of erotic pleasure and (short of X-ray vision) all that's available for visual inspection.
"We got like, whatchamacallit, stop-and-frisk".
Unlike, say, Julien Macdonald, he is averse to lending his clothes out to celebrities, having realised that, although this is a quick route to easy fame, ultimately, appearing on the back of whatshername off of whatchamacallit TV show rarely does much for one's credibility.
By Peter Schjeldahl You will enjoy your visit to the Tino Sehgal whatchamacallit at the Guggenheim — "show" doesn't fill the bill — or else expose yourself as a hopeless grouch.
He and his common-law wife, Beth Smith, who have 12 children between them, ages 2 to 34, run Da Kine Bail Bonds, with three offices in Hawaii (da kine is pidgin Hawaiian, and it means whatchamacallit, or anything you want it to mean).
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