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wha⋅cha⋅ma⋅call⋅it

  [hwuhch-uh-muh-kawl-it, hwoch-, wuhch-, woch-]
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–noun Informal.
an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
Also, whatchamacallit, what-you-may-call-it, what-do-you-call-it.

Origin:
1940–45; sp. of what you may call it reflecting affrication of t before y and reduction of vowels; cf. similar metric pattern and internal əmə in rigamarole, thingamagig
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what⋅cha⋅ma⋅call⋅it

  [hwuhch-uh-muh-kawl-it, hwoch-, wuhch-, woch-]
–noun
whachamacallit.
Also, what-do-you-call-it  [hwuhd-uh-yuh-kawl-it, hwod-, wuhd-, wod-] .
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whatchamacallit [ˈʍətʃəməˈkɑlɪt]

  1. n.
    a name for a person or thing whose real name has been forgotten or is being avoided. : I lost my—you know—my whatchamacallit—my watch!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

whatchamacallit 
1928, compressed form of phrase "what you may call it." Earliest recorded variant is what-calle-ye-hym, attested from c.1473.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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