what-d'-you

Updated: May 13, 2025

You'll take these crazy old rags and you'rre welcome to 'em, and we'll take yourr uniforms if that's what you want. Treaty! We'll make a treaty with you! And we'll take the boat too, and if that don't satisfy you then that's the end of the what-d'-you-call it! You keep still!" he added, turning to Tom. "What did you mean by the what-d'-you call it?"

Percy Keese Fitzhugh - Tom Slade with the Boys Over There