whatsit

noun

Etymology

Univerbation of what + is + it.

Definitions

  1. A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that…

    A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say)

    • Pass me one of those whatsits, will you?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whatsit. 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