doodad
Plural: doodads
Noun
- A gadget or an item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- 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.
Examples
- My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges.
- That strange letter combination felt like a doodad, utterly useless for scoring points.
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
doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget, MacGuffin, Sorted alphabetically, Sorted by number of Google hits, affair, bazinga, bizzo, dealie, dealy, dinglehopper, dingus, dohickey, dojigger, dongle, doo-hickey, doober, doodad, doodah, doofer, doohickus, doohinkey, doohinkus, doovalacky, foo, foobar, frammis, frobnitz, gadget, geegaw, gewgaw, gingambob, gingumbob, hickey, hodad, hootenanny, jawn, jigger, jimbang, jobber, jobby, joint, junk, kajigger, kludge, oojamaflip, rigamajig, shebang, stuff, thing, thingabob, thingamabobber, thingamafuck, thingamajigger, thingamajiggy, thingie, thingmy, thingo, thingum, thingummabob, thingummajig, thingummyjig, thingy, thingymabob, thingymajig, ting, whachacallit, whachamacallit, whaddayacallit, whatchacallit, whatchamahoozie, whatdoyoucallit, whatdyecallem, whatnot, whatsaname, whatsit, whatsitsname, whiff-whaff, whosiewhatsit, whosit, wossisname, wossname, wotsit, yoke, yokibus
Scrabble Score: 9
doodad: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddoodad: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
doodad: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary