a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey

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gadget

Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.

a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey
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