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 What do you call the something that's on-the-tip-of-my-tongue-but-I-can't-think-of-the-word-for-it?  | ||
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 You know. Thingum (bob). Whatchamacallit. Doohicky. Widget. Ineffable thingie.  | |||
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 A couple of threads where we've mentioned this sort of thing before: https://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=441607094&f=932607094&m=4546010572&r=6176006572#6176006572 and https://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=441607094&f=741603894&m=7656064085&r=7656064085#7656064085 Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.  | |||
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 whosamawhatzit thingamabob or thingamajig I like jheem's addition of ineffable . . . ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama  | |||
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 I, too, remember those old threads, and words like "thingamabob."  However, I didn't think that was what Shu was getting at.  I wonder if there is a word for those times when a word or song or whatever is right on the tip of your tongue...but you can't think of it.  It is so annoying!  I imagine there is a neurologic word for it, at least...it's right on the tip of my tongue...but I can't think of it.  [Yeah, yeah, and I will be proactive and acknowledge...just for jheem...that everything doesn't have to have its own word.  | |||
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