Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
thingumbob .
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- noun something one does not remember the name of
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seemed to roe that there was a sort of something in her voice, a kind of thingummy, you know.
My Man Jeeves 1928
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I knew about the indirect costs thingummy, but thanks for the other info anyhow
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Nobody looks across the border of their country and says, What a lovely thingummy they have over there in that other country.
mrissa: Books read, late June mrissa 2010
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What id this facial of oddness that I dreamer when it tilts itself backbencher and curlews with a covering of vintage like tasters and gets to making an expulsion as it lives its true lifeguard in the landfall, a different and frighting thingummy of the landfall?
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We have presumptuously misjudged the colonials once again and I blame the old ‘separated-by-a-common-tongue’ thingummy-jig.
American Idols Newmania 2008
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But recently she woke up early from her nap when I, tuckered from bathttub scrubbing (which, may I say, loving the magic eraser thingummy!), had sat down to watch What Not To Wear for a bit until she woke.
Archive 2007-06-01 kittenpie 2007
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But recently she woke up early from her nap when I, tuckered from bathttub scrubbing (which, may I say, loving the magic eraser thingummy!), had sat down to watch What Not To Wear for a bit until she woke.
What Not To Share kittenpie 2007
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It was brutally interrupted when a water thingummy broke in the next room the bathroom, not the bedroom - I would be in a state if it were the unplumbed bedroom and life started flooding.
gillpolack: Today was quite strange.I thought it wou gillpolack 2009
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Come see me at the children's book breakfast, the auction, the Balzer + Bray launch, the Macmillan desserts thingummy, the Common Ground party...
E. Lockhart's Blog: 2009
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It was brutally interrupted when a water thingummy broke in the next room the bathroom, not the bedroom - I would be in a state if it were the unplumbed bedroom and life started flooding.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009
madmouth commented on the word thingummy
"Pour Lord Thingummy a drink"
-Lottie in Vile Bodies
April 18, 2009