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whatsit

[hwuhts-it, hwots-, wuhts-, wots-]

noun

Informal.
  1. whatsis.



whatsit

/ ˈɒٲɪ /

noun

  1. informala person or thing the name of which is unknown, temporarily forgotten, or deliberately overlooked

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of whatsit1

Reduction of what is it
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Example Sentences

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Now, the Entity intends to annihilate humanity in four days unless it can be taken offline by a key that accesses a gizmo in the Arctic Sea that connects to a whatsit that Ving Rhames’s weary Luther is attempting to invent from a makeshift hospital bed somewhere in the subway tunnels of London.

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If you’ve seen his fleet, clever 2019 whatsit “Chained for Life,” about the vanities troubling a low-budget mad-scientist movie shoot starring a cast of disabled actors, you know how attuned Schimberg can be to everyday snubs and microaggressions.

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“Demolishing the puny vocalizations of ‘folk’ trios like the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Whatsit, Koerner and company showed how it should be done,” David Bowie wrote in a 2003 article in Vanity Fair in which he included “Blues, Rags & Hollers” on a list of his 25 favorite albums.

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Hammer is on the trail of “the great whatsit,” a highly coveted case that everyone seems willing to kill for.

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The Boogeyman Rated PG-13 for a hanging corpse, a malevolent molar and an evil whatsit.

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When To Use

What doeswhatsit mean?

Whatsit is a very informal word for an object whose name you don’t know, have forgotten, or can’t recall at the moment.It’s often used to refer to gadgets or parts of things that might not even have a commonly known name, as in Before we attach the bracket, we have to insert this whatsit here. The word is also sometimes used to refer to things that are not physical objects, such as events, types of media, or abstract concepts. It’s not commonly used to refer to people (terms used for this purpose include what’s-her-name, what’s-his-name, and ɳ󲹳’s-ٳ𾱰-Բ).There are several other similarly informal words that are used in the same way, including the very similar term whatsis as well as whachamacallit, what-do-you-call-it, thingamajig, thingamabob, thingy, doohickey, and doodad.Example: My kids got me one of those whatsits that track your steps. What’s it called? A stepometer?

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