"wihajster" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Polish]

IPA: /viˈxaj.stɛr/
Rhymes: -ajstɛr Etymology: Borrowed from German wie heißt er? (“What's it called?”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|pl|de|wie heißt er?||What's it called?}} Borrowed from German wie heißt er? (“What's it called?”) Head templates: {{pl-noun|m-in}} wihajster m inan Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun|wihajster|wihajstry|wihajstra|wihajstrów|wihajstrowi|wihajstrom|wihajster|wihajstry|wihajstrem|wihajstrami|wihajstrze|wihajstrach|wihajstrze|wihajstry}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], wihajster [nominative, singular], wihajstry [nominative, plural], wihajstra [genitive, singular], wihajstrów [genitive, plural], wihajstrowi [dative, singular], wihajstrom [dative, plural], wihajster [accusative, singular], wihajstry [accusative, plural], wihajstrem [instrumental, singular], wihajstrami [instrumental, plural], wihajstrze [locative, singular], wihajstrach [locative, plural], wihajstrze [singular, vocative], wihajstry [plural, vocative]
  1. (colloquial) placeholder for a thing with an unknown name, thingamajig, whatsit, whatchamacallit (especially an elongated tool or part of a mechanical device) Tags: colloquial, inanimate, masculine
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        "locative",
        "plural"
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        "vocative"
      ]
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      "name": "pl-noun"
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    "wi‧haj‧ster"
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        "6": "wihajstrom",
        "7": "wihajster",
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  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "english": "Some whatchamacallit broke apart from the radio and it stopped working.",
          "text": "Od radia oderwał się taki wihajster i przestało działać.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Give me that whatsit from the grey box on the left.",
          "text": "Podaj mi ten wihajster z szarej skrzynki po lewej.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "No, that... that... whatchamacallit! Whatchamacallit, was for him, after all, anything and everything, from a nail to a church, and because of that he was even called for a while a \"whatchamacallit\", adding this new nickname to his old one.",
          "ref": "1970, Józef Ratajczak, Gniazdo na chmurze, page 62:",
          "text": "No, ten, ten, wihajster! „Wihajstrem“ było w końcu dla niego wszystko, od gwoździa do kościoła, z tego względu nazywano go nawet przez pewien czas „wihajster“, dodając jednak ten nowy przydomek do starego.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "We're not even pretending to smoke. \"In that case maybe one more each.\" \"I'll look for a light.\" He climbed onto to the shitter lid, while she, pretending to accidentally bump into him, clung to him tightly. And in a single moment, his boyish whatchamacallit got hard as a rock.",
          "ref": "2008, Andrzej Kwietniewski, Blondynka z miasta Łodzi (fiction), Łódź: Piątek Trzynastego, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Nawet nie udajemy, że nie palimy. - W takim razie może jeszcze po jednym. - Poszukam ognia. Wgramolił się na deskę od sracza, zaś ona - udając, że niby się niechcący potknęła - przylgnęła do niego mocno. I w jednej chwili jego samczy wihajster stwardniał po męsku.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "MC Hihi remains injured in the firefight - as a consequence of a shot to the throat, he lost the ability to speak. The rapper's career hangs on by a thread. Luckily technology comes to the rescue. In lieu of the chopped up vocal chords, surgeons implant a vocoder into Tytus. However this whatchamacallit alone won't be enough to give him his flow back.",
          "ref": "2009-08-21, M. Fitzner, “Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek: Tytus 2009 (2)”, in Esensja, number 06 (fiction), ul. Wiązana 15c, 04-680 Warszawa, Poland: Konrad Wągrowski, →ISSN:",
          "text": "MC Hihi zostaje ranny w strzelaninie – wskutek postrzału w gardło traci głos i mowę. Kariera rapera zawisa na włosku. Na szczęście z pomocą przychodzi technologia. W miejsce poszatkowanych strun głosowych chirurdzy wszczepiają Tytusowi vocoder. Jednak sam wihajster nie wystarczy, by przywrócić mu dawny flow.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "\"And my cash?\" I asked hopefully. \"there's nothing there, just a busted computer. That jackass wanted to make a TV out of it. \"You know what, take the desk from the meth, it's hidden in the back couch, on the left side, you have to pick up that whatchamacallit.",
          "ref": "1999, Marek Bukowski, Wysłannik szatana (fiction), Warszawa: W.A.B.:",
          "text": "A moja forsa? - spytałem z nadzieją. - Nic tam nie ma, tylko rozwalony komputer. Ten osioł chciał sobie z niego telewizor zrobić. - Wiesz co, zabierz z beemki dysk, jest schowany w tylnej kanapie z lewej strony, trzeba podnieść taki wihajster.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "All that was lit up by the bright halogenic lamps offered the crowd of clients the staggering choice of electronic parts. The stands resembeled vegetable stands, but instead of vegetables in the boxes, there were piles of parts, transistors, conductors and diodes, scrolls of cables bundled up into spools, potentiometers, and all sorts of plugins, pokes, and whatchamacallits.",
          "ref": "2008, Rafał Nowakowski, Rdza (fiction), Warszawa: Świat Książki:",
          "text": "Wszystkie oświetlone jasnymi lampkami halogenowymi oferowały tłumom klientów oszałamiający wybór części elektronicznych. Stoiska przypominały stragany warzywne, ale w skrzynkach zamiast jarzyn leżały stosy części, tranzystory, przewodniki i diody, zwoje kabli nawinięte na szpule, potencjometry, przeróżne wtyczki, pstryczki i wihajstry.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "placeholder for a thing with an unknown name, thingamajig, whatsit, whatchamacallit (especially an elongated tool or part of a mechanical device)"
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      "links": [
        [
          "thingamajig",
          "thingamajig"
        ],
        [
          "whatsit",
          "whatsit"
        ],
        [
          "whatchamacallit",
          "whatchamacallit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) placeholder for a thing with an unknown name, thingamajig, whatsit, whatchamacallit (especially an elongated tool or part of a mechanical device)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/viˈxaj.stɛr/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ajstɛr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wihajster"
}
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        "4": "",
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      "name": "bor+"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from German wie heißt er? (“What's it called?”).",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
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        "plural"
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      "form": "wihajstra",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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      "form": "wihajstrów",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "wihajstrowi",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstrom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wihajster",
      "source": "declension",
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    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstry",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstrem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstrami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstrze",
      "source": "declension",
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        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstrach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstrze",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wihajstry",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m-in"
      },
      "expansion": "wihajster m inan",
      "name": "pl-noun"
    }
  ],
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    "wi‧haj‧ster"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wihajster",
        "10": "wihajstrami",
        "11": "wihajstrze",
        "12": "wihajstrach",
        "13": "wihajstrze",
        "14": "wihajstry",
        "2": "wihajstry",
        "3": "wihajstra",
        "4": "wihajstrów",
        "5": "wihajstrowi",
        "6": "wihajstrom",
        "7": "wihajster",
        "8": "wihajstry",
        "9": "wihajstrem"
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  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Polish 3-syllable words",
        "Polish colloquialisms",
        "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Polish inanimate nouns",
        "Polish lemmas",
        "Polish links with manual fragments",
        "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Polish masculine nouns",
        "Polish nouns",
        "Polish placeholder terms",
        "Polish terms borrowed from German",
        "Polish terms derived from German",
        "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Polish terms with audio links",
        "Polish terms with quotations",
        "Polish terms with usage examples",
        "Rhymes:Polish/ajstɛr",
        "Rhymes:Polish/ajstɛr/3 syllables"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Some whatchamacallit broke apart from the radio and it stopped working.",
          "text": "Od radia oderwał się taki wihajster i przestało działać.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Give me that whatsit from the grey box on the left.",
          "text": "Podaj mi ten wihajster z szarej skrzynki po lewej.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "No, that... that... whatchamacallit! Whatchamacallit, was for him, after all, anything and everything, from a nail to a church, and because of that he was even called for a while a \"whatchamacallit\", adding this new nickname to his old one.",
          "ref": "1970, Józef Ratajczak, Gniazdo na chmurze, page 62:",
          "text": "No, ten, ten, wihajster! „Wihajstrem“ było w końcu dla niego wszystko, od gwoździa do kościoła, z tego względu nazywano go nawet przez pewien czas „wihajster“, dodając jednak ten nowy przydomek do starego.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "We're not even pretending to smoke. \"In that case maybe one more each.\" \"I'll look for a light.\" He climbed onto to the shitter lid, while she, pretending to accidentally bump into him, clung to him tightly. And in a single moment, his boyish whatchamacallit got hard as a rock.",
          "ref": "2008, Andrzej Kwietniewski, Blondynka z miasta Łodzi (fiction), Łódź: Piątek Trzynastego, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Nawet nie udajemy, że nie palimy. - W takim razie może jeszcze po jednym. - Poszukam ognia. Wgramolił się na deskę od sracza, zaś ona - udając, że niby się niechcący potknęła - przylgnęła do niego mocno. I w jednej chwili jego samczy wihajster stwardniał po męsku.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "MC Hihi remains injured in the firefight - as a consequence of a shot to the throat, he lost the ability to speak. The rapper's career hangs on by a thread. Luckily technology comes to the rescue. In lieu of the chopped up vocal chords, surgeons implant a vocoder into Tytus. However this whatchamacallit alone won't be enough to give him his flow back.",
          "ref": "2009-08-21, M. Fitzner, “Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek: Tytus 2009 (2)”, in Esensja, number 06 (fiction), ul. Wiązana 15c, 04-680 Warszawa, Poland: Konrad Wągrowski, →ISSN:",
          "text": "MC Hihi zostaje ranny w strzelaninie – wskutek postrzału w gardło traci głos i mowę. Kariera rapera zawisa na włosku. Na szczęście z pomocą przychodzi technologia. W miejsce poszatkowanych strun głosowych chirurdzy wszczepiają Tytusowi vocoder. Jednak sam wihajster nie wystarczy, by przywrócić mu dawny flow.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "\"And my cash?\" I asked hopefully. \"there's nothing there, just a busted computer. That jackass wanted to make a TV out of it. \"You know what, take the desk from the meth, it's hidden in the back couch, on the left side, you have to pick up that whatchamacallit.",
          "ref": "1999, Marek Bukowski, Wysłannik szatana (fiction), Warszawa: W.A.B.:",
          "text": "A moja forsa? - spytałem z nadzieją. - Nic tam nie ma, tylko rozwalony komputer. Ten osioł chciał sobie z niego telewizor zrobić. - Wiesz co, zabierz z beemki dysk, jest schowany w tylnej kanapie z lewej strony, trzeba podnieść taki wihajster.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "All that was lit up by the bright halogenic lamps offered the crowd of clients the staggering choice of electronic parts. The stands resembeled vegetable stands, but instead of vegetables in the boxes, there were piles of parts, transistors, conductors and diodes, scrolls of cables bundled up into spools, potentiometers, and all sorts of plugins, pokes, and whatchamacallits.",
          "ref": "2008, Rafał Nowakowski, Rdza (fiction), Warszawa: Świat Książki:",
          "text": "Wszystkie oświetlone jasnymi lampkami halogenowymi oferowały tłumom klientów oszałamiający wybór części elektronicznych. Stoiska przypominały stragany warzywne, ale w skrzynkach zamiast jarzyn leżały stosy części, tranzystory, przewodniki i diody, zwoje kabli nawinięte na szpule, potencjometry, przeróżne wtyczki, pstryczki i wihajstry.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "placeholder for a thing with an unknown name, thingamajig, whatsit, whatchamacallit (especially an elongated tool or part of a mechanical device)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thingamajig",
          "thingamajig"
        ],
        [
          "whatsit",
          "whatsit"
        ],
        [
          "whatchamacallit",
          "whatchamacallit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) placeholder for a thing with an unknown name, thingamajig, whatsit, whatchamacallit (especially an elongated tool or part of a mechanical device)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/viˈxaj.stɛr/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ajstɛr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wihajster"
}

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