# What do YOU call What-cha-ma-call'ems? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465 "2006-09-12T21:45:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/21 "2006-09-13T01:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=detop] we call them “Patentes a gosses” [/QUOTE] Oh, you do not. 🙂 I call them “Whatsits” or “Who-ja-ma-call-its” or “Thingummies”. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/22 "2006-09-13T01:56:17Z")
It’s that thing over there, or that thingamabob. ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/23 "2006-09-13T01:58:47Z")
whopper-dealies ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/24 "2006-09-13T02:37:29Z")
What-ya-ma-call it… Thingie… Thingie-ma-bob… Da kine… What’s-it… You know! The thingie by the what’s-it next to da kine and the what-ya-ma-call-it! 😃 * * * \<\< No one is listening until you fart. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/25 "2006-09-13T03:17:43Z")
Dinguses. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/26 "2006-09-13T03:17:54Z")
“The guy with the thing we saw that time. You know, that guy.” Yes, the whole sentance to describe a single lost item. There is a family story here, of course. 🙂 Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/27 "2006-09-13T03:26:50Z")
[or this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name) ---
**Author:** ![oy\_vay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/258eb7/32.png) [@oy\_vay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oy_vay)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/28 "2006-09-13T03:29:11Z")
I’d like to call em ‘penises’ or maybe vaginas Hey you see the neighbors erecting that er purple penis thing for the backyard? It came with one of them there er vagina! the kids are gonna love that! Dang it I lost the corkscrew penis I needed for assembly, it’s supposed to lock into this vagina here:o just brave enough to call them thingamajiggers though. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/29 "2006-09-13T03:36:03Z")
_Porqueria_ ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/30 "2006-09-13T04:20:49Z")
Hoojamaflips. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/31 "2006-09-13T04:25:25Z")
OK pay attention, I am only going to go through this once. The What-ja-ma-callet attaches to the dingus, and is secured by the whos-ist. See that whats-it that sticks off the end of the dingus? That bolts to the thingie over here. Once you have it bolted down, it holds this dealie in place. This doohicky ::: points::: then plugs in here. Then go back and tighten the bolt to the German torque spec.\* \*Goot and tight ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/32 "2006-09-13T08:36:54Z")
pinganillo: officially, the name for the ear thingees that people on TV wear so they can get instructions. Unofficially, any thingee pinganillo mágico: USB flash drive Or, in English, “thingee” and “magic thingee”. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/33 "2006-09-13T08:52:29Z")
Thangs ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/34 "2006-09-13T10:31:54Z")
“thingy” Except to the family it’s “thingy-with-the-stick-and-the-fur-with-eyelashes-that-people-do” I can’t remember exactly where that comes from. I know it’s a long forgotten childhood joke but I can’t remember the details. ---
**Author:** ![theunfounddoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@theunfounddoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theunfounddoor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/35 "2006-09-13T12:24:45Z")
It’s a donacker. Or a thing-a-ma-jigy. Or just thingy. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/36 "2006-09-13T12:47:37Z")
I call it a “u-no.” As is “I need a thingamajig.” “A what?” “I thingamajig. A—You Know.” ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/37 "2006-09-13T12:55:28Z")
[QUOTE=Misnomer] Yep, they’re thingies. [/QUOTE] Third’n’ the Thingie. Or do you say “thingy?” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/38 "2006-09-13T13:04:24Z")
Dootamajobbies. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/39 "2006-09-13T13:32:26Z")
Doomagidjee, or hoopajoo. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465/40 "2006-09-13T13:42:36Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Then go back and tighten the bolt to the German torque spec.\* \*Goot and tight [/QUOTE] I was in Germany, and I know for an absolute fact it’s spelled “gutenteit.” Around hour house we have framastats, both left-handed and right-handed. Anything shiny is bling – nuts, bolts, washers. “Hamme 'at bling 'ere, will’ya?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-what-cha-ma-callems/372465.md?page=3)