you-know-what
Because it is a word with a single syllable, you-know-what is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofyou-know-what
- The name of something the speaker does not want to mention, but which is known, or very likely to be known, to the listener. It can be plural (as in "... the you-know-whats").
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