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doovalacky 

General term for an unkown item. A common Australain colloquialism. Used whenever you can't remember what something is called.
Wife: Where are the car keys?
Husband: On the bench.
Wife: Where on the bench?
Husband: Over there, next to the doovalacky.
Wife: Oh, next to the doovalacky, why didn't you say so in the first place.
doovalacky by Robert Clark August 31, 2008
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dooverlacky 

A small item you need urgently that you can't remember the name of
Hey, hand me that dooverlacky so I can stop this glue going everywhere.
dooverlacky by Poll Hereford October 20, 2009

doobilacky 

Australian slang term of an obscure but aged variety, denoting any complex object or device of a too-difficult-to-describe nature.
Just open the valve on the pipe there, no, not that one, the one leading out of the doobilacky next to the whatsit. Yeah.
doobilacky by Hank M. June 18, 2008
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.
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