Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something whose name is unknown or forgotten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thingumbob.
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- noun Something that one does not know 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
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apparently, the forcefield thingamajig is some kind of gadget for analyzing contractor abilities, but alas, Hei’s powers are incapable of being analyzed, causing the gadget to fail.
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One opposition member has already said he suspects the premier will simply come up with some diversionary tactic - a "thingamajig" - aimed at pacifying the public.
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She has some kind of thingamajig like this that helps her ...
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But I like 8a, a versatile catch-all for "stuff", and "thingamajig" don't fit.
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So I clicked on the link Zac embedded in his email and it took me to a site where, sure enough, one can get a totally free copy of Believe in America: Mitt Romney's Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth, provided, that is, one owns a thing called a Kindle, which, I'm told, is some thingamajig people own instead of books.
Tony Phillips: But Mitt, I Don't Own One of Those Do-Hickeys Tony Phillips 2011
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It was a remote control, sonic vibration topwater thingamajig made by a company called the 21st Century Lure Company or Tackle company or something like that.
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It was a remote control, sonic vibration topwater thingamajig made by a company called the 21st Century Lure Company or Tackle company or something like that.
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Every utterance from the illegal prime meanster is hollow like that thingamajig held up by his neck, and so terribly terribly shallow.
Global Voices in English » Fiji: New constitution or delaying tactic? 2009
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You push that thingamajig the boy has in his hand, to control the nails rising up.
Tossing and turning, turning and tossing… « Dating Jesus 2009
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Oh, and that gun made by Dr. Schroeder … I thought it looked like a more compact version of the power-sucking thingamajig that Youko used against Hei in episode 2.
slumry commented on the word thingamajig
doohickey
July 25, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word thingamajig
Also a component in the Mousetrap board game.
May 31, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word thingamajig
Interesting, but when I typed thingamajig into one of those online language detectors/translators, it identified Javanese as the probable language of origin.
December 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word thingamajig
The Javanese word for this is anu. Which also pops up in whatsisname, si anu.
December 3, 2021