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"ref": "1921, Johnny Gruelle, Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7, page 69:",
"text": "The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit.",
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"ref": "1969, J[ames] P[inckney] Miller, stage adaptation by F. Andrew Leslie, The People Next Door, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →OCLC, act II, page 42:",
"text": "You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer.",
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"ref": "1972, Carolyn Lane, Child of Air: A One Act Play, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, page 13:",
"text": "JESSICA: How many times do I have to say it? We were not stealing, Officer. We were just— / MONAHAN: I know. Performing some kind of whatchamacallit deed. Anyhow, they go to the clink, that's what happens to people who filch city property.",
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"ref": "1996, Corbett Mack, as told by Michael Hittman, “Boyhood (1892–1905)”, in Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians), Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 60:",
"text": "I'm a boy, so when I'm sick, they can call in poohaghooma, Indian doctor. But not Tom Mitchell! No, sir! [We] won't have Tom Mitchell to doctor me! 'Cause whatchamacallit, he always used to doctor me …",
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"ref": "1998, David Alan Black, “There’s No Place Like Rome: The Parts of Speech and Their Function”, in It’s still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-understand Guide to Intermediate Greek, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, page 19:",
"text": "\"Think we ought to check this whatchamacallit?\" / \"No, that doodad over there seems to be the problem.\"",
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"ref": "2001 [1992], Russell Heng, Lest the Demons Get to Me, revised version January 2001, via National Library Board Singapore, Act 1, page 4:",
"text": "You know, he looked at everybody and everything but not me as if just by letting his eyes rest on me for a moment would let out that he and I are having a whatchamacalit.",
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"ref": "2014 October, Don Pendleton, chapter 15, in Domination Bid (Don Pendleton’s Stony Man: America’s Ultra-covert Intelligence Agency; Gold Eagle Book), Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 180:",
"text": "As you've said, the safety of the American people is our first priority. We have orders that if these EMP whatchamacallits can't be secured then they must be destroyed.",
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kakosezove"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "socchegghiadè"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "socchegghiarè"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "socchegghiè"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "oné"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chisme"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Costa-Rica",
"Mexico",
"masculine"
],
"word": "chunche"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "chingadera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "River Plate region",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Costa-Rica",
"masculine"
],
"word": "coso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Caribbean",
"Central-America",
"Colombia",
"feminine"
],
"word": "vaina"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mojäng"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "grunka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mackapär"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "yung ano"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "zımbırtı"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "zamazingo"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "я́к його́"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "я́к її́"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "я́к їх"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"North",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pethma"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"South",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bechingalw"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"class-5"
],
"word": "ilokhuzane"
}
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈwɒtʃəməkɔːlɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍʌt͡ʃəməkɔlɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwʌt-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwʌt͡ʃməkɑlɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɔtʃəməkɔːɫət/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
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],
"word": "whatchamacallit"
}
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "what-you-may-call-it"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of what-you-may-call-it",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of what-you-may-call-it. United States, 20th century (recorded in 1921).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "whatchamacallits",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "whatchamacallit (plural whatchamacallits)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"what‧cha‧ma‧call‧it"
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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"Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
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"English countable nouns",
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"Terms with Assyrian Neo-Aramaic translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Cantonese translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Navajo translations",
"Terms with Neapolitan translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Sicilian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"Terms with Zulu translations",
"Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1921, Johnny Gruelle, Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7, page 69:",
"text": "The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1969, J[ames] P[inckney] Miller, stage adaptation by F. Andrew Leslie, The People Next Door, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →OCLC, act II, page 42:",
"text": "You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1972, Carolyn Lane, Child of Air: A One Act Play, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, page 13:",
"text": "JESSICA: How many times do I have to say it? We were not stealing, Officer. We were just— / MONAHAN: I know. Performing some kind of whatchamacallit deed. Anyhow, they go to the clink, that's what happens to people who filch city property.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Corbett Mack, as told by Michael Hittman, “Boyhood (1892–1905)”, in Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians), Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 60:",
"text": "I'm a boy, so when I'm sick, they can call in poohaghooma, Indian doctor. But not Tom Mitchell! No, sir! [We] won't have Tom Mitchell to doctor me! 'Cause whatchamacallit, he always used to doctor me …",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1998, David Alan Black, “There’s No Place Like Rome: The Parts of Speech and Their Function”, in It’s still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-understand Guide to Intermediate Greek, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, page 19:",
"text": "\"Think we ought to check this whatchamacallit?\" / \"No, that doodad over there seems to be the problem.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001 [1992], Russell Heng, Lest the Demons Get to Me, revised version January 2001, via National Library Board Singapore, Act 1, page 4:",
"text": "You know, he looked at everybody and everything but not me as if just by letting his eyes rest on me for a moment would let out that he and I are having a whatchamacalit.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 October, Don Pendleton, chapter 15, in Domination Bid (Don Pendleton’s Stony Man: America’s Ultra-covert Intelligence Agency; Gold Eagle Book), Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 180:",
"text": "As you've said, the safety of the American people is our first priority. We have orders that if these EMP whatchamacallits can't be secured then they must be destroyed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy."
],
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[
"metasyntactic",
"metasyntactic#English"
],
[
"object",
"object#Noun"
],
[
"doodad",
"doodad"
],
[
"gizmo",
"gizmo"
],
[
"thingamajig",
"thingamajig"
],
[
"thingy",
"thingy"
]
],
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"(slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈwɒtʃəməkɔːlɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍʌt͡ʃəməkɔlɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwʌt-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwʌt͡ʃməkɑlɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɔtʃəməkɔːɫət/",
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"General-Australian"
]
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"word": "thingy"
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{
"code": "aii",
"lang": "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic",
"roman": "hina",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "ܗܢܐ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "takova",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "такова"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "daixonses"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"english": "me¹ je⁵",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "咩嘢"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"english": "mat¹ dung¹ dung¹",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "乜東東 /乜东东"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mau⁵",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "某"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "go²",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "嗰"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "那个那个"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "那个东西"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dōngdōng",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Taiwan",
"slang"
],
"word": "東東 /东东"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tentononc"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dingenot"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dimsedut"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dippedut"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "himstergins"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "dinges"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "umo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "aĵaĵo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "hilavitkutin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bidule"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "truc"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trucmuche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "machin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "machin-chose"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "schmilblick"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cousa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Dingsbums"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "Dingsda"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Krimskrams"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pós to léne",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "πώς το λένε"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skindapsós",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σκινδαψός"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ma shmo",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מַה שְּׁמוֹ"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "izé"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "hogyishívják"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "hogyhívják"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "bizbasz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "szirszar"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dæmi"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "fídus"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vattelapesca"
},
{
"alt": "なんとか",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nantoka",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "何とか"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "naninani",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "何々"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geosigi",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "거시기"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mwosigi",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "뭐시기"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "daadaolyéhé"
},
{
"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "chilleto"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "wihajster"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "ustrojstwo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "śmeges"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "tenteges"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dzyndzel"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dynks"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pierdzielnik"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gżdynks"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pipsztyk"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coisa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negócio"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "treco"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "troço"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bagulho"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aquelaporralá"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"english": "Rio",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Carioca",
"feminine"
],
"word": "parada"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"feminine"
],
"word": "bagaça"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"english": "Rio",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Carioca",
"feminine"
],
"word": "paradinha"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ка́к его́"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ка́к её"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ка́к их"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "štúka",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шту́ка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kakosezove"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "socchegghiadè"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "socchegghiarè"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "socchegghiè"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "oné"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chisme"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Costa-Rica",
"Mexico",
"masculine"
],
"word": "chunche"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "chingadera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "River Plate region",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Costa-Rica",
"masculine"
],
"word": "coso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"Caribbean",
"Central-America",
"Colombia",
"feminine"
],
"word": "vaina"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mojäng"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "grunka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mackapär"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "yung ano"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "zımbırtı"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"word": "zamazingo"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "я́к його́"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "я́к її́"
},
{
"alt": "там",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "я́к їх"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"North",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pethma"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"South",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bechingalw"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember",
"tags": [
"class-5"
],
"word": "ilokhuzane"
}
],
"word": "whatchamacallit"
}
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}
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