See whatchamacallit on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "為“what you may call it”或“what you might call it”（“你會怎樣叫它”）的縮短形式。出現於20世紀的美國（1921年的紀錄）。",
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"ref": "1921，Johnny Gruelle，Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7，頁 69:",
"text": "The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit."
},
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23,
38
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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，頁 42:",
"text": "You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer."
},
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133,
148
]
],
"ref": "1972，Carolyn Lane，Child of Air: A One Act Play，Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC，頁 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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170
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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，頁 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，頁 19:",
"text": "\"Think we ought to check this whatchamacallit?\" / \"No, that doodad over there seems to be the problem.\""
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122
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"ref": "2014 October，Don Pendleton，章號 15, in Domination Bid (Don Pendleton’s Stony Man: America’s Ultra-covert Intelligence Agency; Gold Eagle Book)，Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN，頁 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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"ipa": "/ˈwɒtʃəməkɔːlɪt/"
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"ipa": "/ˈʍʌtʃəməkɔlɪt/"
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"sense": "（想不起名字的）東西",
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"sense": "（想不起名字的）東西",
"word": "gizmo"
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"sense": "（想不起名字的）東西",
"word": "thingamajig"
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"ref": "1921，Johnny Gruelle，Orphant Annie Story Book, Volume 7，頁 69:",
"text": "The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit."
},
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[
23,
38
]
],
"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，頁 42:",
"text": "You’re—you must be the whatchamacallit, huh? The peer."
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
133,
148
]
],
"ref": "1972，Carolyn Lane，Child of Air: A One Act Play，Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC，頁 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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155,
170
]
],
"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，頁 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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[
30,
45
]
],
"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，頁 19:",
"text": "\"Think we ought to check this whatchamacallit?\" / \"No, that doodad over there seems to be the problem.\""
},
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[
106,
122
]
],
"ref": "2014 October，Don Pendleton，章號 15, in Domination Bid (Don Pendleton’s Stony Man: America’s Ultra-covert Intelligence Agency; Gold Eagle Book)，Don Mills, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN，頁 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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},
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},
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"word": "gizmo"
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"word": "whatchamacallit"
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