whatnot

/ˈwɒtnɒt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈwɒtnɒt/

whatnot

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

what - not -> whatnot

Myanmar meaning

မတိကျသော၊ အသေးအဖွဲအရာ။

Full entry

whatnot /'wɒtnɒt/ n [U without a or the ] (infml )

စသည်။ စတဲ့။ a drawer full of bits of paper, pencils and whatnot. ❍ They never miss family occasions — you know, weddings and funerals and whatnot.

More examples

‘We yakked about the Church in NZ and the French blowing up Greenpeace ships in Auckland Harbor and whatnot.’
‘I lived a rather tumultuous life targeting for money power wealth authority status name fame and whatnot.’
‘In the country they dress it up with an anthropomorphic bedtime dolly, turning Cool Britannia into an Edwardian whatnot.’
‘Ranji David is Appu, Rashmi Kothari and 13 others join in to make up a dramatic interplay of laughs and guffaws, back talks and whatnots.’
‘She made it so it's easy for me to tweak, and I'm sure I'll be fooling around with the colors and whatnot before long.’
‘Yes, I'd be somewhat shocked if my boyfriend told me he used the services of a prostitute to be tortured, nipple-clamped, weed on or whatnot.’
‘I don't understand the comings and goings of people depending on circumstances or differences or whatnot.’
‘But there's some typical things you might expect with runoff areas and whatnot.’
‘While Justine prepared herself for action, I sipped meditatively on a drink containing 17 different herbs and whatnots guaranteed to detoxify my system.’
‘He pushed debris and whatnot off of the couch, lay his jacket down, and then set the girl atop it.’
‘Perhaps that was what jaunted my serenity askew after the meal had ended, people going off to do their own things and whatnot.’
‘For one thing, there are a lot of games that are geared towards what we would call female interests, like building things and whatnot.’
‘They can be found in reports, studies and other bureaucratic whatnots dating back decades that are gathering dust on City Hall shelves.’
‘On the ticket wallets there were adverts for various, erm, things; shops and whatnot.’
‘And that could take awhile since I also have to buy furniture and whatnots and stuff.’
‘His name may sound snooty and whatnot, but this guy is one of the coolest guys you'll find in this school.’
‘Supersticious like i am sometimes and believe in faith and whatnots this is a bit spooky.’
‘They can keep the smarties and the M&M's and the pennies and whatnot.’
‘I also unplugged it before I left the house; save myself some electricity and whatnot.’
‘When foreigners start to get really jittery about the war, they'll be trading in their euros, yen, rubles, and rupees and whatnots for solid, US dollars.’

Synonyms

Rube Goldberg invention, accessory, agent, all that, all that jazz, along with others, and all, and on and on, and others, and so on, and the like, and the rest, antique, apparatus, appliance, arrangement, article, bagatelle, bauble, bead, bibelot, blah blah blah, bric-a-brac, bygone, collectible, collector's item, construction, contraption, contrivance, conversation piece, creation, curio, curiosity, device, doodad, doohickey, embellishment, equipment, et al., et cetera, expedient, flummery, frill, furbelow, gadget, gaud, gear, gewgaw, gimcrack, gimmick, glass, hardware, implement, instrument, invention, item, jewel, jewelry, junk, knick-knack, knickknack, machine, makeshift, material, means, mechanism, medium, memento, miniature, nothing, notion, novelty, novelty item, objet d'art, oddity, ornament, outfit, plaything, resort, resource, rigging, rock, shift, showpiece, so forth, so on, souvenir, sparkler, stone, tackle, thingamabob, thingamajig, tool, toy, trapping, trifle, trinket, triviality, utensil, whatchamacallit, whatever, whatsit, whimsy

Antonyms

destruction, disorganization, lot, normality, ruin