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"doodad" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often thingy (6 letters).
Definitions
something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Used in a sentence
“My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges.”
“Of course I eat an apple every evening—an apple a day keeps the doctor away—but still, you ought to have more prunes, and not all these fancy doodads.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Unnamed gadget”6 letters
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