" whatsit "

 [ "whatsit" ]

1: Something you say when you cannot remember or be bothered to say what it is someone has.

  * e.g.,  ... Yeah, Tim is over there with his new whatsit 

 [ "whatsit" ]

1: A slang term for feces, which originated in Homestar Runner as a euphemism for the substance that The Poopsmith shovels.

  * e.g.,  ... "I keep telling him the sun don't rise and set on that pile of whatsit, but he don't want to listen!" -The King of Town 

 [ "great whatsit" ]

1: From the classic Mike Hammer film noir Kiss Me Deadly, it refers to a nebulous but potentially devastating threat that consumes a private detective or an entire nation. Much of its terror comes by way of implication. Examples include the communists of the 1950s, the One Ring and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

  * e.g.,  ... "Why is there no apostrophe in the great whatsit," the student asked. 

 [ "whosie-whatsit" ]

1: a person or thing that you know but have forgotten his or its name.

  * e.g.,  ... I met a whosie-whatsit yesterday. I cannot recapture his name right now. 

 [ "great whatsit" ]

1: The mysterious, misunderstood threat that propels the classic film noir Kiss Me Deadly; it turns out to be a suitcase of a glowing, uncontrollable radioactive substance.

  * e.g.,  ... What is the great whatsit in this Kafka novel? 

 [ "great whatsit" ]

2: The great whatsit need not name anything specific: it refers to any nebulous but presumably devastating threat that becomes an obsession for an individual or even an entire nation, regardless of its materiality. Much of its terror comes by way of implication. Examples include the communists of the 1950s, the JFK conspiracy and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

 [ "dicky whatsit" ]

1: Some days you have a dicky whatsit, and then some days you don't. Can sometimes relate to a Hairy Pair' Sausage Casserole. Immac and Veet may help a dicky whatsit... especially after a hairy sausage casserole! You don't want a barbed wired wedgie in your dicky whatsit! Please embrace your dicky whatsit, you have a lovely dicky whatsit. Try to optimise your dicky whatsit. Dicky whatsits are just part of life's rich pattern. A dicky whatsit is just like converting a JSON payload. ...a dicky whatsit happens more frequent than you m ay think!

  * e.g.,  ... Oh my life, I had a dicky whatsit and it was quite nice! (Someone's having a dicky whatsit) 

 [ "Dicky Whatsit" ]

1: Some days you have a dicky whatsit, and then some days you don't. Can sometimes relate to a Hairy Pair Sausage Casserole. Immac and Veet may help a dicky whatsit... especially after a hairy sausage casserole! You don't want a barbed wired wedgie in your dicky whatsit! Please embrace your dicky whatsit, you have a lovely dicky whatsit. Try to optimise your dicky whatsit. Dicky whatsits are just part of life's rich pattern. A dicky whatsit is just like converting a JSON payload. ...a dicky whatsit happens more frequent than you m ay think!

  * e.g.,  ... Oh my life, I had a dicky whatsit and it was quite nice! (Someone's having a dicky whatsit)