All doohickey synonyms
doo·hick·ey
D d noun doohickey
- contraption — You can refer to a device or machine as a contraption, especially when it looks strange or you do not know what it is used for.
- widget — a small mechanical device, as a knob or switch, especially one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled; gadget: a row of widgets on the instrument panel.
- object — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- doodad — a decorative embellishment; trinket; bauble: a dress covered with doodads.
- thing — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
- contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- thingamajig — a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.
- whatchamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
- gismo — a gadget or device: What is this gismo supposed to do?
- thingamabob — thingamajig.
- gadget — a mechanical contrivance or device; any ingenious article.
- whatsit — whatsis.
- doofer — (slang) An object whose name the speaker or writer cannot remember.
- thingy — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- doodah — A thing; especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part.