- 1. A word used when the word/actual">actual name of the object in question will not come to mind. Very versatile but often very vague. It is derived from the phrase "what-you-may-call-it" which can be found in T. H. White's The Once and Future King. > Claire- "Hey, Adam, hand me the- the- you know, the whachamacallit." > Adam- "The what?" Source: ecdict
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