hootmalalie

English

Noun

hootmalalie (countable and uncountable, plural hootmalalies)

1. Something for which one does not have a name.
   • 1983, Plating and Surface Finishing - Volume 70, Issues 7-12, page 27:

     In any case, I'm talking about that long, rod-shaped, copper hootmalalie from which your racks hang during processing.

   • 2002, Peggy Christian, The Bookstore Mouse, →ISBN, page 43:

     There is an old English . . . uh . . . hootmalalie . . . you know, a proverb, that says 'A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.'

   • 2015, Catherine Robertson, The Hiding Places, →ISBN, page 69:

     It's not as if I know all your personal hootmalalie.