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whatchamacallit

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Noun
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Japanese Meaning
名前がわからない、または思い出せない物を指す俗語表現 / 話し手が実際の名称を知らない物体を示すための仮の名詞 / 例:どんな物でも当てはまる、物の名前が出てこない場合に用いる placeholder名詞
What is this buttons?

一番上の棚にあるあの何とかいうやつを取ってくれる?

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(slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.

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whatchamacallit

Can you hand me the whatchamacallit from the top shelf?

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Can you hand me the whatchamacallit from the top shelf?

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