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单词 what-ye -call
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what-ye (or -you) -call(-it)
An appellation for a thing or person whose name the speaker forgets, does not know or wish to mention, or thinks not worth mentioning. Also occasionally substituted for any word (e.g. an adjective) which the speaker fails to recall.
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the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown
swilk and swilkc1175
thinga1325
what-call-ye-him1473
who knows what?1548
I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568
God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569
washical1575
what-d'ye-call-'em1593
so-and-so1596
whiblin1604
so-fortha1616
jiggumboba1625
know-not-whata1642
thingum1652
thingum-thangum1684
what's-his-name1697
something or other1706
thingummy1737
thingamabob1751
something1764
what's-her-name1816
conundrum1817
thingamerry1819
thingamajig1824
somebody1825
what's-its-name1839
whangdoodle1852
thingummytite1865
dingus1866
what-not1876
whatsita1882
gilguy1883
gadget1886
dingbat1894
doohickey1914
oojah1917
oojah capivvy1917
oojiboo1918
doodad1920
tiddlypush1923
whosis1923
thingy1927
doodah1928
doofer1937
hootenanny1940
whatchamacallit1942
gizmo1943
frammis1948
whosit1948
whifflow1961
oobyjiver1963
whatsisface1967
oojamaflip1970
what's-her-face1980
1639 J. Taylor Divers Crabtree Lect. 217 I..gave her a sound spurnne upon the Buttocks:..O my what doe you call't, said shee.
1650 A. Cowley Guardian v. v. sig. E3v Dog. .. How the what-d'ye-call-'um runs? What do ye call it? Pun. Time, Sir.
1673 J. Milton On New Forcers of Conscience in Poems (new ed.) 69 By shallow Edwards and Scotch what d'ye call.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iii. i. 30 His Father was Squire what d'you call him, of what d'you call 'em Shire.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Pref. 17 Spoken by Mr. Whatdicall'um.
1752 S. Foote Taste ii. 25 She was a kind of a what d' ye call 'em..a sort of a Queen or Wife, or something or other to somebody, that liv'd a damn'd while ago.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xix. 88 There being so many tendons and what-d'ye-call-'ems all about it [sc. the knee].
1773 H. Walpole Let. to W. Cole 8 Jan. Mr. What-d'ye-call-him's pamphlet.
1779 F. Burney Let. June in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 318 Miss what d'ye call her.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. ix. 257 We..went to that public house or what-d'ye-call, in Piccadilly.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate iii There is good accommodation at the what-d'ye-call-'em arms.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxv. 244 To break up old associations and what-do-you-callems of that kind.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 74 As legitimate a subject of human study as the glacial period or the silurian what-d'ye-call-ems.
1875 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow i College is out of the question..unless he entered himself as a what-do-you-call-it?.. A sizar.
β. In contracted forms whatd'ecalt, what d'ee cal't, what-d'ye-caw't, whatchicalt, what-sha-callum, etc. (cf. [see washical n.]. ): sometimes analysed as = what shall I call..? Obsolete1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 20 Hollinsheads engrosing; some-bodies abridging; and whatchicaltes translating.1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. ii. sig. B4 Didst thou not see a fellow here in a what-sha-callum doublet? View more context for this quotation1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse v. v Your great acquaintance, and alliance in the Whatshicall Court Non obstante.1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. G1v Rogue enough though, to offer us his whatd'ecalts? his Doxies.1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 121 What think you Sir of your what-sha'come Water and Diascord?1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxviii. 188 It is called also the not-named, or (a whats you call) an unknown Sore, no body knows what it is.1673 S'too him Bayes 55 I came onely to..be a witness for the orthodoxness of what d'ee cal't.1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 10 'Tis, let me see, now, whach'ee call, Syncategorematical.a1807 J. Skinner Amusem. Leisure Hours (1809) 98 That camsteary what-d' ye-caw't (I think it's genius, walie fa't).1820 W. Scott Abbot II. xi. 350 My Lady What-shall-call'um's powder.γ. So what-ye (or -you) -call(-it) (later usually what-you-may-call-it) [ [see what pron., adj.1, and adv. 5b]. .] 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. Dv Eli. Why hees a what you calt. Mar. A what you call it can you not name it.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 66 Good euen good Mr what ye cal't.a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 42 Lis. Heeres your first weapon ducks meat. Sim. How, a dutch what you call em, Stead of a German falchion.1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxvii. 272 There is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet!1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne xxiv Fine place, Bob; built by the what-you-may-call-its.1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed ix. 181 Say good-bye to the what-you-call-um girl.
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