A wonderfully specific Midwestern Americanism used in Kansas and Nebraska as a stand-in for any unnamed object — a thingamajig, a doohickey, a whatchamacallit. 'Doodinkus' is the kind of word that sounds made up even to people who use it regularly, which is precisely part of its charm. It belongs to a rich tradition of placeholder words that English speakers reach for when the real name of something temporarily eludes them.
Just hand me that doodinkus next to the socket wrench — the little metal one with the weird end.
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(US, Kansas, Nebraska, informal) thingamabob.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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