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whatnottery en · NOUN

Etymology

From what not + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Assorted items, concepts, etc.; a miscellany or hodgepodge.
    • 'Ghastly,' as one wife put it, 'just a lower middle-class suburb with intellectual whatnottery instead of privet hedges.' 2003, John D Sutherland, Towards Community Mental Health:
    • ...covering up the usual clutter of wires, batteries, gas lines, and other whatnottery. 1963 May, Popular Science, volume 182, number 5:
    • ...his parents' small home that burst with house plants and whatnottery... 1997, John Hersey, The Algiers Motel incident: