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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
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Names and titles
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age
aka
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under the name ofidiom
unidentified
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whatchamacallit | American Dictionary


whatchamacallit
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 whatchamacallit


whatchamacallit
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.
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