doodad
Meanings
Plural: doodads
Noun
- something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"
- Used to refer to something whose name one cannot recall: an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
Origin / Etymology
Unknown; attested since the 1880s. Compare earlier daud (“a piece of something”), later doohickey (“a thing (whose name one cannot recall)”), dialectal dad, dadge (“a large piece, chunk”).
Synonyms
affair, bazinga, bizzo, dealie, dealy, dinglehopper, dingus, dohickey, dojigger, dongle, doo-hickey, doober, doodad, doodah, doofer, doohickey, doohickus, doohinkey, doohinkus, doojigger, doovalacky, foo, foobar, frammis, frobnitz, gadget, geegaw, gewgaw, gimmick, gingambob, gingumbob, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, hickey, hodad, hootenanny, jawn, jigger, jimbang, jobber, jobby, joint, junk, kajigger, kludge, MacGuffin, oojamaflip, rigamajig, shebang, Sorted alphabetically, Sorted by number of Google hits, stuff, thing, thingabob, thingamabob, thingamabobber, thingamafuck, thingamajig, thingamajigger, thingamajiggy, thingie, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingmy, thingo, thingum, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummabob, thingummajig, thingummy, thingummyjig, thingy, thingymabob, thingymajig, ting, whachacallit, whachamacallit, whaddayacallit, whatchacallit, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatchamahoozie, whatdoyoucallit, whatdyecallem, whatnot, whatsaname, whatsis, whatsit, whatsitsname, whiff-whaff, whosiewhatsit, whosit, widget, wossisname, wossname, wotsit, yoke, yokibus
Scrabble Score: 9
doodad is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL worddoodad is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
doodad is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary