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Definition of doohickey in English: doohickeynounPlural doohickeys ˈduːhɪkiˈdo͞oˌhikē North American informal A small object or gadget, especially one whose precise name the speaker cannot recall. 〈北美,非正式〉(尤指记不起确切名称的)小玩意儿,小器具 a garage filled with electronic parts and other valuable doohickeys 一个满是电子零件和其他值钱玩意儿的汽车库。 Example sentencesExamples - The doohickeys that you cherish are, of course, totally pathetic in my eyes, revealing you as a ‘sharper image’ slave to self-defeating, fashionable mechanisms.
- She looked around the kitchen, hoping for some kind of lever type doohickey.
- You found yourself a magical doohickey that nobody knows how to work.
- Pie bakers can stick these little ceramic doohickeys, usually shaped like birds, into their pies so that steam can escape.
- In the latest title, players control a space cowboy with a gun for an arm, a cybernetic eye with multiple scan modes, and a collection of doohickeys - including a grappling beam - that let him explore a vast world.
- You'll find no winged doohickeys or portable thingamajigs here.
- The first thing that caught my eye was one of those plastic doohickeys that six-packs of soda come in.
- I'm going to make some little doohickey out of paperclips for the next half hour and then maybe wander off and get a candy bar.
- But he brought aboard a doohickey that recharges your cellphone from your laptop.
- You can't see me, and I won't show up on that doohickey.
- To find our little bit of it, first click on the image and then click again on the magnifier doohickey to get the most zoomed in one.
- You can use an air popper, an electric popper, or one of those fancy self-stirring doohickeys, but all you really need to make good popcorn is a large, lidded skillet, pan or wok.
- And with a little adapter/switcher doohickey, it's easy to set it up as a second computer, sharing the same mouse monitor and keyboard.
- Clothing, toiletries and miscellaneous technological doohickeys probably called things like ‘datalink’, ‘commpad’ and ‘holocred’ were strewn across the floor in the way of messy rooms everywhere.
- Or it could have been the white doohickey that fell off.
- It almost felt like it had to be instinctual to make a run for the magical doohickey that would allow me to go on to the next level.
- It's not unusual for a single dish to come presented in four, five, even seven separate little trays, boxes, tureens, cups, or assorted doohickeys.
- Create some downloadable desktop doohickey that goes off at random and requires the viewer to do something, making the viewer part of the art.
- The rear seats fold in a 60/40 arrangement and the design team has managed to avoid the recent mania for complicated levers and spring-loaded doohickeys.
- The sensible thing now would be to repackage the doohickey and take it to the nearest charity shop.
Synonyms object, article, item, artefact, commodity
OriginEarly 20th century (originally servicemen's slang): blend of doodad and hickey. Definition of doohickey in US English: doohickeynounˈdo͞oˌhikē North American informal A small object or gadget, especially one whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall. 〈北美,非正式〉(尤指记不起确切名称的)小玩意儿,小器具 a garage filled with electronic parts and other valuable doohickeys 一个满是电子零件和其他值钱玩意儿的汽车库。 Example sentencesExamples - It's not unusual for a single dish to come presented in four, five, even seven separate little trays, boxes, tureens, cups, or assorted doohickeys.
- You found yourself a magical doohickey that nobody knows how to work.
- You can use an air popper, an electric popper, or one of those fancy self-stirring doohickeys, but all you really need to make good popcorn is a large, lidded skillet, pan or wok.
- Create some downloadable desktop doohickey that goes off at random and requires the viewer to do something, making the viewer part of the art.
- The rear seats fold in a 60/40 arrangement and the design team has managed to avoid the recent mania for complicated levers and spring-loaded doohickeys.
- It almost felt like it had to be instinctual to make a run for the magical doohickey that would allow me to go on to the next level.
- Or it could have been the white doohickey that fell off.
- To find our little bit of it, first click on the image and then click again on the magnifier doohickey to get the most zoomed in one.
- The doohickeys that you cherish are, of course, totally pathetic in my eyes, revealing you as a ‘sharper image’ slave to self-defeating, fashionable mechanisms.
- Pie bakers can stick these little ceramic doohickeys, usually shaped like birds, into their pies so that steam can escape.
- She looked around the kitchen, hoping for some kind of lever type doohickey.
- And with a little adapter/switcher doohickey, it's easy to set it up as a second computer, sharing the same mouse monitor and keyboard.
- I'm going to make some little doohickey out of paperclips for the next half hour and then maybe wander off and get a candy bar.
- But he brought aboard a doohickey that recharges your cellphone from your laptop.
- The first thing that caught my eye was one of those plastic doohickeys that six-packs of soda come in.
- The sensible thing now would be to repackage the doohickey and take it to the nearest charity shop.
- In the latest title, players control a space cowboy with a gun for an arm, a cybernetic eye with multiple scan modes, and a collection of doohickeys - including a grappling beam - that let him explore a vast world.
- Clothing, toiletries and miscellaneous technological doohickeys probably called things like ‘datalink’, ‘commpad’ and ‘holocred’ were strewn across the floor in the way of messy rooms everywhere.
- You'll find no winged doohickeys or portable thingamajigs here.
- You can't see me, and I won't show up on that doohickey.
Synonyms object, article, item, artefact, commodity
OriginEarly 20th century (originally servicemen's slang): blend of doodad and hickey. |