I forgot my whatchamacallit in the taxi.
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Whatchamacallit
//ˈwɒtʃəməkɔːlɪt//
Synonyms for "whatchamacallit" (41 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Translations
95 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σκινδαψός noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܗܢܐ noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Bulgarian
1 entries- такова noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Catalan
1 entries- daixonses noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 乜東東 /乜东东 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- 咩嘢 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- 嗰 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- 某 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 東東 /东东 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- 那个东西 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- 那个那个 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Czech
1 entries- tentononc noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Danish
4 entries- dimsedut noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- dingenot noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- dippedut noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- himstergins noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Dutch
1 entries- dinges noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Esperanto
2 entries- aĵaĵo noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- umo noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Finnish
1 entries- hilavitkutin noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
French
4 entries- bidule noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- machin noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- machin-chose noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- schmilblick noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Galician
3 entries- aquel noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- cousa noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- couso noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Georgian
1 entries- რა ჰქვია noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
German
3 entries- Dingsbums noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- Dingsda noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- Krimskrams noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Greek
1 entries- πώς το λένε noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַה שְּׁמוֹ noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Hungarian
4 entries- bizbasz noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- hogyhívják noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- hogyishívják noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- izé noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Icelandic
2 entries- dæmi noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- fídus noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Italian
2 entries- coso noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- vattelapesca noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Japanese
2 entries- 何々 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- 何とか noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Korean
2 entries- 거시기 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- 뭐시기 noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Navajo
1 entries- daadaolyéhé noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Neapolitan
1 entries- chilleto noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Polish
4 entries- dynks noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- dzyndzel noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- gżdynks noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- pierdzielnik noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Portuguese
4 entries- bagaça noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- bagulho noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- coisa noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- negócio noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Russian
4 entries- бандура noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- ка́к его́ noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- ка́к её noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- ка́к их noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- kakosezove noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Sicilian
3 entries- socchegghiadè noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- socchegghiarè noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- socchegghiè noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Slovak
1 entries- oné noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Spanish
4 entries- chingadera noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- chisme noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- chunche noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- coso noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Swedish
3 entries- grunka noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- mackapär noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- mojäng noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Tagalog
1 entries- yung ano noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Turkish
2 entries- zamazingo noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- zımbırtı noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Ukrainian
3 entries- я́к його́ noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- я́к їх noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- я́к її́ noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Welsh
2 entries- bechingalw noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
- pethma noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Zulu
1 entries- ilokhuzane noun (any object the actual name of which the speaker does not know or cannot remember)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
It's that, you know, um, whatchamacallit. It's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't remember the name!
Source: tatoeba (1528012)
The whatchamacallit in the kitchen is making a strange noise again.
Source: tatoeba (12297109)
The Thingamajig and the Wachamacallit.
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