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Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word THINGY
THINGY
Definitions of THINGY
- Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.
- (slang, euphemism, childish) A penis.
- (informal) A person whose name one cannot recall.
- Alternative letter-case form of thingy ("a person whose name one cannot recall").
- (informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using THINGY in a Sentence
- In the March 2008 issue of Viz they visit Uncle Eddie for his daughter Amy's second birthday party and give their niece an ethical gift, which seems (to Eddie) to be a "donation to an Oxfam-funded goat thingy for a starving African family", but turns out to be a donation to their own "Malcolm and Cressida Ethical Living Awareness Project".
- He is not very good with measurements, as he doesn't use proper units of measurements, rather just "tweaking the thingy on the whatchimacallit a smidge".
- Individual modules are called bidules (the Plogue web site states that the word "Bidule" is French for "thingy" or "gadget").
- English words to colloquially describe an object whose name the speaker does not know, does not recall, or does not care about include thingy, thingamajig, whatsit, and doohickey.
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