as in thingamajig
a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember
screw in the doohickey at the top of the lamp shade
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Recent Examples of doohickey
This small doohickey works with Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery, an exclusive Prime member benefit that protects your packages from porch pirates and increment weather.
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Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
These days, though KitchenAid sells all kinds of other doohickeys, the stand mixer is still what the company is known for.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Vehicles of all shapes and sizes are present at Woodward, including this minuscule go-kart doohickey.
—Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
Created by the Greek mathematician Archimedes, this mythical doohickey is a dial with wheels as meticulously engineered as those in a modern watch.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
Gondry, as always, is into doohickeys, contraptions, and finding low-tech ways to do high-tech things.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2023
Ideal for cooking indoors or outdoors (and portable for camping trips), this small doohickey works with all cuts of meat (beef, lamb, chicken, and pork), as well as fish.
—Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
Karlesky’s doohickey of choice is a set of Legos.
—Guest, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2017
This is the Dyson Zone, a personal air-purifying mask and noise-canceling headphone doohickey that started life well before the Covid-19 pandemic made masks mainstream.
—Chris Haslam, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
These days, though KitchenAid sells all kinds of other doohickeys, the stand mixer is still what the company is known for.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Vehicles of all shapes and sizes are present at Woodward, including this minuscule go-kart doohickey.
—Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
Created by the Greek mathematician Archimedes, this mythical doohickey is a dial with wheels as meticulously engineered as those in a modern watch.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
Gondry, as always, is into doohickeys, contraptions, and finding low-tech ways to do high-tech things.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2023
Ideal for cooking indoors or outdoors (and portable for camping trips), this small doohickey works with all cuts of meat (beef, lamb, chicken, and pork), as well as fish.
—Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
Karlesky’s doohickey of choice is a set of Legos.
—Guest, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2017
This is the Dyson Zone, a personal air-purifying mask and noise-canceling headphone doohickey that started life well before the Covid-19 pandemic made masks mainstream.
—Chris Haslam, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doohickey
Noun
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Lenovo’s claim appears to be that the Legion 9i can fully cool itself with this method, no thingamajig needed.—
Monica Chin,
The Verge,
1 Sep. 2023
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Shot in 2021, the film apparently featured a crew of Ukrainian gangsters as the henchmen of Hugh Grant’s billionaire arms dealer antagonist, Greg Simmonds (who is brokering the thingamajig deal).—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2023
Noun
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In fact, one of my abiding pleasures in life is finding small but transformative thingamabobs—frivolous and not at all necessary items that don’t cost much but can make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2024
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Want to make a new crypto, or a new crypto thingamabob?—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes,
26 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Back then, the song was a fast, visionary whatsit, all pulsing, pipe-like synths and simple, buzzing one-bit melodies.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2024
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The villain this time around isn’t a person but an all-powerful artificial-intelligence whatsit known as the Entity, which fools a super-advanced Russian submarine into destroying itself in the film’s clever pre-credits sequence.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
5 July 2023
Noun
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Don’t let some emotionally immature dingus shake you.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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Trent is every bit the dingus Cole described him as, but still makes two modestly worthwhile contributions to the entire affair.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Even with the rain and associated road noise (splashing and whatnot), the cabin of the Q6 E-Tron was a serene space.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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Is that going to involve local law enforcement giving up, the undocumented grandmother who’s cleaning houses or whatnot, there’s nothing to suggest that, that there’s any law, state law that will allow local law enforcement to do that.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Neighbor-bully-jerkface Trey takes the bolt cutters to the tunnel’s electrical whatchamacallits, which causes a minor explosion and opens up that wicked grate that got Matty in ’94.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
11 Jan. 2025
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Also: how in the name of Philadelphia Flyers hockey legend Bobby Clarke did this show get Gritty, the giant orange whatchamacallit who is the Flyers mascot, as its opening night guest star?—
Gene Seymour,
CNN,
22 Sep. 2022
Noun
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The bottom line: What might have been a sleepy pre-Christmas weekend in Austin will instead see thousands of fans descend on the city, picking up hotel rooms, renting cars, buying doodads on South Congress and eating out (and tipping servers) at restaurants.—
Asher Price,
Axios,
20 Dec. 2024
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Sprinkled among the tens of thousands of holiday doodads are pieces of family history that Brown holds dearer to his heart than any of the Christmas adornments that have a high monetary value.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In other words, don't bother asking how to get rid of a hickey fast.—
Lindsey Ellefson,
Glamour,
28 Dec. 2024
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The final piece of the puzzle snaps into place as the gang attends a party thrown by Mac’s friend and former producer Roya (Haven Burton), who happens to own the monkey that gave Mac that embarrassing small-mouth hickey.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2024
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“Doohickey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doohickey. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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