whatsis informal , auch: whoosis , auch: whosis

"Just let the whatsis get its back teeth into that and whamo!"

"But you or Ruddygore can read this volume whatsis and give me the cure, right?"

Maybe Timmy spreads some cheese on his whatsis before he blows him."

He was still in the pool, showing off the stroke that brought victory to dear old Whatsis only a few years back."

I would expect that sort of thing from old Whatsis here, but not from you, Harold."

"Didn't I read someplace that they found a dead person in Brad Whatsis' office?

"Because the quantum whatsis is unstable?

Yeah, yeah, mumble whatsis, drink at the Engel.

"Well, son, this looks like the fabled collision between the unstoppable whatsis and the immovable thingee.

"I told him times have changed and I don't give a whatsis if Slotter Key doesn't approve what I do.

Said Mom: "I walk into the hardware store downtown and say nonverbal things like, 'Do you have a whatsis that fits a whosis?'

Jay's thin yellow owner's manual has 80 pages; the new one, wrapped in leather, needs 480 pages to tell you about all the whatsis and electronic whosis.

Even given that these people were loonies, put up to this by Lianne Whatsis, Andrew Kendrick was having some difficulty with that.

Whatever this Blueridge Defense whatsis wants people to think, it's our enemy; most likely it's the same pirate force that overthrew Bissonet System.

Saint Whatsis, and the Welsh prince, and Leif Ericsson, and the Chinese, and all the rest.

A couple dozen pickets, half a them the usual nutballs, this Reva Whatsis and her elves, and the rest a them were rubberneckers."

The segment featured a character surprisingly similar to the Doctor, a puppet called Mr. X, who travelled through time and space in his "Whatsis Box" teaching children about history.

Where they buiHave that whole military installation near some mountain in Wyoming just to welcome those lithe bald-headed, goggle-eyed critters coming down in this big old glittery flying whatsis . . ." Her voice trailed off.

Early in the run, there was a short-lived puppet character called Mr. X (no relation to a puppet of the same name who appeared on the American show) who traveled through time and space in his "Whatsis Box" teaching children about history.

And yet, sensitively written and deeply felt though the family passages are, they seem imposed, as if the author were trying to give significance to his romp, like Dolly elevating her art through alliance with Shakespeare: "I gotta get me a different kinda audience, not just a lot a guys who only wanna look at your whatsis."