treco — meaning in English
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English meaning
- doohickey noun (informal) A thing whose exact name you don't know or can't remember.
- thingamajig noun An object whose name you don't know or can't recall.
- thingy noun An informal word for an object whose name the speaker can't recall or doesn't need to state.
- whatchamacallit noun An informal word for an object whose name you can't remember or don't know.
Senses
treco is used for these senses in English:
- doohickey (slang, originally, US) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)
- thingamajig (informal) Something that one does not know the name of.
- thingy (informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
- whatchamacallit (slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.
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