army ranks

[Dave Wilton]

At dinner last night someone asked me if there was a term for words used to
refer to objects that one could not remember or did not know the name of,
words like "thingee", "watchamacallit", "doohickey", etc.

I was at a loss. Is there a word for such terms?

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net

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