Synonyms for hootenanny
All synonyms
Noun
1. Affair — A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing
thing, affair, gadget, gimmick, hickey, widget, dingus, jigger, doodad, doodah UK, dohickey, dojigger informal, thingum, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, thingamajig informal, gubbins, whatchamacallit informal, thingmabob, thingmajig, whatsis, gizmo slang
Definitions
- n. 1
A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing.
Related words
- Other spellings
- hootananny hootenannie hootnanny
Forms
- Plural
- hootenannies → things, affairs, gadgets, gimmicks…
Example sentences
- affair She seems to have something to do with the affair.
- gadget This is a great time-saving gadget for the housewife.
- gimmick It's a clever marketing gimmick.
- hickey Tom saw that Mary had a hickey on her neck.
By length
- 5 letters
- thing1, gizmo2
- 6 letters
- affair2, gadget2, hickey2, widget2, dingus2, jigger, doodad2, doodah
- 7 letters
- gimmick2, gubbins2, thingum, whatsis
- 8 letters
- dohickey, dojigger
- 9 letters
- thingummy
- 10 letters
- thingmabob, thingmajig
- 11 letters
- thingamajig, thingumabob, thingumajig
- 15 letters
- whatchamacallit
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gizmo2 = 2 syllables).