"wotsit" meaning in English

See wotsit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: wotsits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wotsit (plural wotsits)
  1. (informal) Alternative spelling of whatsit Tags: alt-of, alternative, informal Alternative form of: whatsit
    Sense id: en-wotsit-en-noun-YGjWl1hC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for wotsit meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wotsits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wotsit (plural wotsits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "whatsit"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 September 26, oiorpata, “Re: poor bloke”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), message-ID <qm39nvc9ol2g4t0jg18ers6qgfljatqner@4ax.com>",
          "text": "Nah, I reckon it's all one of those mass testeria thingies, where someone starts saying they're not seeing owt, and then afore you know it we've lost the wotsit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of whatsit"
      ],
      "id": "en-wotsit-en-noun-YGjWl1hC",
      "links": [
        [
          "whatsit",
          "whatsit#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Alternative spelling of whatsit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wotsit"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wotsits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wotsit (plural wotsits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "whatsit"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 September 26, oiorpata, “Re: poor bloke”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), message-ID <qm39nvc9ol2g4t0jg18ers6qgfljatqner@4ax.com>",
          "text": "Nah, I reckon it's all one of those mass testeria thingies, where someone starts saying they're not seeing owt, and then afore you know it we've lost the wotsit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of whatsit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whatsit",
          "whatsit#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Alternative spelling of whatsit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wotsit"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.