spokenTHINGNAME OF A THING a word you use when you cannot think of the word you want 那个什么玩意儿〔指想不起名称的东西〕
Try and undo the screw to get the whatsit off.
试着拧开螺丝,把那个小玩意儿拆下来。
Examples from the Corpus
whatsit• Sick of Neighbours It's my neighbour Deardrie - he's a right old interferingwhatsit.• The curtains were green with little whatsits along the edge.• Something decidedly peculiar about the boy with the whatsit round his head.• Just enough to work up a sweat, keep the blood moving, tone the old cardio-vascular whatsit.