Whatchamacallit

Etymology
shortened version of "what you may call it" or "what you might call it"

Noun

 * 1) 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 Thesaurus:thingy

Translations

 * French: ,
 * German: Dingsbums m/f/n
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Neapolitan: chilleto


 * Russian: как его/её/их там
 * Slovak: oné
 * Spanish: chisme, chunche , coso  , vaina
 * Ukrainian: як його/її/їх там