"whatsitsname" meaning in English

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "what's",
        "3": "its",
        "4": "name"
      },
      "expansion": "what's + its + name",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From what's + its + name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whatsitsnames",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whatsitsname (plural whatsitsnames)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Hey, hand me the whatitsname, will you? I need to tighten the doodah on this thingummybob.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971 May, Elenor Grozney, “Letters”, in National Lampoon, volume 1, number 14, New York, N.Y.: National Lampoon, Inc., page 6, column 3:",
          "text": "Don’t forget to feed whatsitsname.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember or immediately bring to mind."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "what's-its-name"
        },
        {
          "word": "wossname"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "skindapsós",
          "sense": "any object whose name one does not know",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "σκινδαψός"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whatsitsname"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "what's",
        "3": "its",
        "4": "name"
      },
      "expansion": "what's + its + name",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From what's + its + name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whatsitsnames",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whatsitsname (plural whatsitsnames)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Ancient Greek translations"
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        {
          "text": "Hey, hand me the whatitsname, will you? I need to tighten the doodah on this thingummybob.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971 May, Elenor Grozney, “Letters”, in National Lampoon, volume 1, number 14, New York, N.Y.: National Lampoon, Inc., page 6, column 3:",
          "text": "Don’t forget to feed whatsitsname.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember or immediately bring to mind."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "what's-its-name"
    },
    {
      "word": "wossname"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "skindapsós",
      "sense": "any object whose name one does not know",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "σκινδαψός"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whatsitsname"
}