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Originally Posted by Abo 7alap  Has anybody heard " whatchamacallit " ?
It uses when you can't remember the name of something ...
I've never heard it but I saw it by coincidence at Longman Dictionary ...
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It's current, though a bit dated. More common, in my experience, are the shorter variants 'whatsit' or 'doofer'.
b
PS There's also the slightly journalistic and jocular 'wossname' - though that's usually a person rather than a thing.