Doohickey
Doohickey noun - A small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember.
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Machine
Machine noun - A device that changes energy into mechanical motion.
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Doohickey and machine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Doohickey" instead a noun "Machine".
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- In The Nightmare Machine, Lando Calrissian teaches Zak about playing cards and knowing when someone is bluffing him, and then lets him handle a deck-shuffling doohickey, only to have to duck when Zak handles it too roughly and accidentally fires the deck at him at high speed.
Source: Chekhovs Gun / Literature
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Machine and Doohickey. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/doohickey/machine
Doohickey & Machine. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/doohickey/machine>.
Machine or Doohickey. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/doohickey/machine.
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