whatnottery

English

Etymology

From what not +‎ -ery.

Noun

whatnottery (uncountable)

1. Assorted items, concepts, etc.; a miscellany or hodgepodge.
   • 1963 May, Popular Science, volume 182, number 5:

     ...covering up the usual clutter of wires, batteries, gas lines, and other whatnottery.

   • 1997, John Hersey, The Algiers Motel incident:

     ...his parents' small home that burst with house plants and whatnottery...

   • 2003, John D Sutherland, Towards Community Mental Health:

     'Ghastly,' as one wife put it, 'just a lower middle-class suburb with intellectual whatnottery instead of privet hedges.'