Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Something that one cannot name or does not know the name of; a whatsit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dated, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: oojah
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unknown. Perhaps from Urdu ḥujjat kāfī fīhi (“argument is sufficient”); compare oojah. Sornig (see quotations below) suggests derivation from Neapolitan agio capit (“I've understood”), but seems to be alone in this suggestion. Attested from the 1910s, often described as soldiers’ or sailors’ slang.
