thingumbobs

I was not over the bellies of better men, nor strutted athwart the quarter-deck in a laced doublet, and thingumbobs at the wrists.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

They contemplated the squiggles, quiggles, quids, thingumbobs, and doohickii in mystified silence.

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

"You are the -- the man who invents those delightful thingumbobs," she cried with an inspiration.

Tommy and Grizel 1898

Bring her with you if you must; but don't you think that the nice, quiet country with the thingumbobs all in bloom would suit her best?

Tommy and Grizel 1898

But what he liked best of all was to stop a newly-returned student in full view of the people, and talk learnedly of his courses -- dear me, ay -- of his courses, and his matriculations, and his lectures, and his graduations, and his thingumbobs.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

'No, I see how it works; them' ere thingumbobs and gimcracks do it all. '

The Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

We can and we must "run the machine" (to use another of their vulgar expressions) with them, until we get a chance to knock off the useless wheels and thingumbobs, and scour the whole concern, inside and out.

Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home 1872

Monty-thingumbobs about but he's agoin 'off to day with that queer fish

Rivers of Ice 1859

We can and we MUST "run the machine" (to use another of their vulgar expressions) with them, until we get a chance to knock off the useless wheels and thingumbobs, and scour the whole concern, inside and out.

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Bayard Taylor 1851

We managed matters very differently on board the old _Orion_, I can tell you, 'or, as he walks up and down the deck examining everything not in existence when he was last at sea, he exclaims, ` We'll change all this presently -- it doesn't come up to my notions; never saw thingumbobs fitted in this way before.'

The Three Lieutenants William Henry Giles Kingston 1847