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What’s your default term when you can’t remember what something is really called?

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) July 11th, 2012
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You know . . . that thingamajig, thingy-do, thingamabob. That’s the shizzle I’m talking about.

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Thingamajig or the whatchamacallit.

zenvelo (39407

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I just use a word similar to the one I can’t memory.

Keep_on_running (6759

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Thingymajig, wotsit.

Bellatrix (21307

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Thingy

bookish1 (13159

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I call it a “whatever it’s called”.

mambo (2749

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doo-dah

Lightlyseared (34611

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pisspotical effigy.

ucme (50047

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Thank you all for your—er—your hoochie-poos ;-)

picante (11498

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Mine is thingy-dingy, my husband’s is deal.

SuperMouse (30845

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I always call it a thingee, but a friend of mine has a much better word doomafletchey.

Kardamom (33285

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what @zenvelo said. But this made me remember a funny incident from my first fashion industry job. The patternmaker was Chinese and our designer kept referring to the fake handkerchief in the fake pocket as a “doodad”. So when he labeled the pattern piece he wrote doodad on it. I laughed so hard! He was like, “what? that’s not what you call it?”. I should have said no, it’s really called a whatchamaycallit, lol.

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