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A doodah is a small object when you cannot remember its name, or never knew it. “Pass me that doodah” means “that thing — you know the one.” It is British and informal, the sort of word you say at home, in a kitchen, or in a shop, not in an exam essay. Any small object can be a doodah for a moment, until the real name comes back. Though actually, British English has a little family of these nameless-thing words — doodah, thingummy, — and they all do the same job. Americans more often say doohickey or doodad. Doodah is not a special type of tool; the whole point is that the name is missing. There is another, older British phrase, all of a doodah, meaning very or in a flap, but that is a different use. Here the word is only the little unnamed object.
那個東西、那個小玩意(一時叫不出名字時用的英國口語)
組成Nobody is sure where this word comes from.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
doodahnoun
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informalExcrement.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。