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whatchamacallit

whatchamacallit

English

Noun

whatchamacallit ‎(plural whatchamacallits)

A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker doesn’t know or can’t remember.

Synonyms

See Wikisaurus:thingy.

Translations

an object of unknown name

Chinese:
Cantonese: 咩嘢 ‎(me¹ je⁵)
Czech: tentononc (cs) m
Danish: dingenot c, dimsedut c, dippedut c
Dutch: dinges (nl) m, n
French: truc (fr) m, machin (fr) m
Georgian:
German: Dingsbums (de) n, Dingsda (de)
Hungarian: izé (hu), hogyishívják, hogyhívják
Italian: coso (it) m
Japanese: 何とか ‎(なんとか, nantoka)

Navajo: daadaolyéhé
Neapolitan: chilleto
Polish: wihajster (pl), ustrojstwo (pl)
Portuguese: negócio (pt) m, troço (pt) m
Russian: ка́к его́ (там) m, n ‎(kák jevó (tam)), ка́к её (там) f ‎(kák jejó (tam)), ка́к их (там) pl ‎(kák ix (tam)), шту́ка (ru) f ‎(štúka)
Slovak: oné
Spanish: chisme (es) m, (Mexico) chunche (es) m, (River Plate region) coso (es) m, (Central America, Caribbean, Colombia) vaina (es) f, chingadera (es)
Ukrainian: я́к його́ (там) m, n ‎(ják johó (tam)), я́к її́ (там) f ‎(ják jijí (tam)), я́к їх (там) pl ‎(ják jix (tam))

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