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whatchacallit

noun

Etymology

From whatcha + call + it.

  1. derived from *ḱe✻ — “here; here”
  2. inherited from *hit✻ — “this, this one”
  3. inherited from *hit✻
  4. inherited from hit — “it”
  5. inherited from it
  6. compounded as whatchacallit — “whatcha + call + it”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of whatchamacallit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whatchacallit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA