| 词汇 | a doohickey |
| 释义 | (redirected from a doohickey)doohickeyA name for a gadget or thing whose actual name is unknown or has been forgotten. Where's that doohickey? I need it to finish this repair. Hand me that doohickey or whatever it's called, will you? doojiggerA name for a gadget or thing whose actual name is unknown or has been forgotten. Where's that doojigger? I need it to finish this repair. Hand me that doojigger or whatever it's called, will you? doojiggerand doohickey and doohickie (ˈdudʒɪgɚ and ˈduhɪki) n. a name for a gadget. Toss me that little red doohickey, will you? doohickeyverbSee doojigger whatchamacallit(ˈʍətʃəməˈkɑlɪt) n. a name for a person or thing whose real name has been forgotten or is being avoided. I lost my—you know—my whatchamacallit—my watch! whatchamacallitSomething whose name is not known or has been forgotten. A slangy alteration of “what you may call it,” it dates from the first quarter of the twentieth century. For example, “He’s got that new gadget on his car, a whatchamacallit—oh, a GPS.” Similar if not quite synonymous terms are doohickey and thingamabob, dating from about the same time. For example, “The Digital Book System . . . a doohickey slightly bigger than a cassette box—that stores the equivalent of 10 Bibles” (Newsweek, December 7, 1992). |
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