Whatchamacallit
WordNet
noun
(1) Something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
"She eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"
"There may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- a metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name you don’t know or can’t remember. There are many spellings and many synonyms.
Synonyms
- dohickey, doohickey
- doober
- doodad
- doover
- doomaflatchy
- gizwiz
- jobbyjobber
- thingamabob, thingumabob, thingummybob
- thingamajig
- thingo
- thingummy
- whatnot
- whatsit
- See also Wikisaurus:thingy