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English
Etymology
First attested 1914, of uncertain origin, probably from doodad + hickey.
Pronunciation
Noun
doohickey (plural doohickeys)
- (slang, originally US) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thingy
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Translations
a thing
- Dutch: dinges (nl) m
- Esperanto: umo (eo)
- Finnish: vehje (fi), vekotin (fi), hilavitkutin (fi)
- French: truc (fr) m, machin (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Dingsbums (de), Dingsda (de)
- Italian: coso (it)
- Maori: mea
- Polish: wihajster (pl) m
- Portuguese: coisa (pt) f, negócio (pt) m, trem (pt) m, troço (pt) m, treco (pt) m
- Russian: штуко́вина (ru) f (štukóvina)
- Serbo-Croatian: stvarčica (sh) f
- Swedish: grunka (sv), mackapär (sv), manick (sv), mojäng (sv), pryl (sv), sak (sv), ting (sv), tingest (sv)
- Tok Pisin: samting (tpi)
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