Whatsit

Word WHATSIT
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Definitions and meanings of "Whatsit"

What do we mean by whatsit?

Something whose name is unknown or forgotten. noun

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

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

Something you say when you cannot remember or be bothered to say what it is someone has. Urban Dictionary

A slang term for feces, which originated in Homestar Runner as a euphemism for the substance that The Poopsmith shovels. Urban Dictionary

From the classic Mike Hammer film noir Kiss Me Deadly, it refers to a nebulous but potentially devastating threat that consumes a private detective or an entire nation. Much of its terror comes by way of implication. Examples include the communists of the 1950s, the One Ring and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Urban Dictionary

A person or thing that you know but have forgotten his or its name. Urban Dictionary

The mysterious, misunderstood threat that propels the classic film noir Kiss Me Deadly; it turns out to be a suitcase of a glowing, uncontrollable radioactive substance. The great whatsit need not name anything specific: it refers to any nebulous but presumably devastating threat that becomes an obsession for an individual or even an entire nation, regardless of its materiality. Much of its terror comes by way of implication. Examples include the communists of the 1950s, the JFK conspiracy and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Urban Dictionary

Some days you have a dicky whatsit, and then some days you don't. Can sometimes relate to a Hairy Pair Sausage Casserole. Immac and Veet may help a dicky whatsit... especially after a hairy sausage casserole! You don't want a barbed wired wedgie in your dicky whatsit! Please embrace your dicky whatsit, you have a lovely dicky whatsit. Try to optimise your dicky whatsit. Dicky whatsits are just part of life's rich pattern. A dicky whatsit is just like converting a JSON payload. ...a dicky whatsit happens more frequent than you m ay think! Urban Dictionary

Some days you have a dicky whatsit, and then some days you don't. Can sometimes relate to a Hairy Pair' Sausage Casserole. Immac and Veet may help a dicky whatsit... especially after a hairy sausage casserole! You don't want a barbed wired wedgie in your dicky whatsit! Please embrace your dicky whatsit, you have a lovely dicky whatsit. Try to optimise your dicky whatsit. Dicky whatsits are just part of life's rich pattern. A dicky whatsit is just like converting a JSON payload. ...a dicky whatsit happens more frequent than you m ay think! Urban Dictionary

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The word "whatsit" in example sentences

When I go into Time Machine it has my user directories (i.e. in Finder everything under my username whatsit, such a Documents) excluded from the backup. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's stuffed to bursting with arch-villains, secret societies, weird murderers, femmes fatales, hulking brutes, and little "whatsit" dolls made from human skin and hair--one of which chuckles if jostled or shaken. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I do not know how to make a "whatsit" unresponsive, so I cannot test Process Tamer's capability, [email protected] (2009)

See, the thing there activates the whatsit which is powered by a series of widgets and doohickeys to create the ... it all makes sense once you read the owner's manual. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Your company may make the best "whatsit" in the industry, but that doesn't mean you can get away with an amateurish-looking website or fail to deliver your product on time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"whatsit", and then Dr Watson may decide that dumpreg. exe is itself unresponsive so it launches further instance (s) of dumpreg. exe to report the failure (s) of the previous instance (s), and the system suffers a fatal embrace and hardly ever looks at the mouse and keyboard to see me hammering away in desperation. [email protected] (2009)

Wouldn't it be cool if this * was* the celebrity whatsit? ❋ Kateelliott (2009)

"Needing a bit of extra multi-tasking in these middle overs, Rob, I just turned on the telly and Adam does have a point about Dolgo-whatsit," says Clare Davies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tools cleaned, put away, old whatsit and plastic ball -- (NO not typing that again!) are in the recycle bin. ❋ P_n_elrod (2010)

I wish stuff like this -- math, biology, physics -- was bigger news than, oh, the latest celebrity whatsit. ❋ Kateelliott (2009)

So, the band of Alice Cooper apparently have free access whatsit as Koru Air New Zealand members too, and they are making a hell of a racket on the other end of the hall from you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now he's some sort of last surviving whatsit/savior of the galaxy in some space-fantasy, and he seems very out of place there. mbellerbrock ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, according to whatsit on the subway, Tevis wrote the novel so Roeg could make it into a movie. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

I decided I wanted to be big, on my own, for, whatsit, philosophical reasons. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Constant poster campaigns and mini-exhibitions for Black History month or Gay this and Trans whatsit that and whatever else is being ‘celebrated’. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Eric heard a man complain about the possibility of bird whatsit on his suit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On my wife's side, somebody asked my father-in-law, who was a country lawyer: "Is this Ala-whatsit educated?". ❋ Caroline Rees (2010)

Yeah, [Tim] is [over there] with his [new] whatsit ❋ Cleo Byrd (2008)

"I keep telling him the sun don't [rise] and set on that [pile] of whatsit, but he don't want to listen!" -The [King of Town] ❋ JohnnyLurg (2011)

"Why is there no [apostrophe] in the great [whatsit]," the student asked. "Don't ask stupid questions," [the professor] replied. "Its existence is simply a fact." ❋ Wang (2005)

I met a whosie-whatsit [yesterday]. [I cannot] recapture his name [right now]. ❋ Uttam Maharjan (2011)

What is the great [whatsit] in this [Kafka] [novel]? ❋ Schowkuu (2005)

[Oh my life], I had a [dicky whatsit] and it was quite nice! ([Someone's] having a dicky whatsit) ❋ Fancyphanicpants (2021)

[Oh my life], I had a dicky whatsit and it was [quite] nice! ([Someone's] having a dicky whatsit) ❋ Fancyphanickpants (2021)

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