词汇 | whatchamacallit |
释义 | whatchamacallit noun[ C ] informaluk /ˈwɒtʃ.ə.məˌkɔːl.ɪt/ us /ˈwɑː.tʃə.məˌkɑː.lɪt/ used when you are speaking about something or someone whose name you can not remember: 名叫什么什么的那个人,那个叫某某的东西(用于指记不起名字的人或物) I need a - a whatchamacallit - one of those things that you can caramelize sugar with.我需要一个——那个叫什么来着——可以熔化糖的那个东西。 Synonyms doohickeyUSinformal thingamabobinformal Names and titles A.N. Other age aka alias appellation first name forename form of address given name good name pen name pet name place name pseudonym pseudonymity trademark unchristened under the name ofidiom unidentified unnamed whatchamacallit | American Dictionarywhatchamacallit noun[ C ] us/ˈhwʌtʃ·ə·məˌkɔ·lət, ˈwʌtʃ-, ˈhwɑtʃ-, ˈwɑtʃ-/ (used when you cannot remember or do not know the name of something) an object: My whatchamacallit is broken – the thing that controls the oven temperature. Examples of whatchamacallitwhatchamacallit The -ma-, however, without question, seems to be the same interfixal -ma- in whatchamacallit. Marines often use it in conversational tone as an alternative to mentioning widget or whatchamacallit. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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