Meaning & use
Whatsits
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Informal term for unnamed or unspecified objects whose actual names the speaker cannot recall.
See it in a sentence
The drawer was full of cables, adapters, and other little whatsits.
Hand me one of those metal whatsits over there, the one that looks like a clip.
A note on using this word
Formed from 'what's it', this playful word is used when a speaker forgets or doesn't know the proper name of an object.
Words with a similar meaning
thingamajigsgadgets
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