Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A thingamajig.
Wiktionary
- n. Placeholder word for a thing or person nonspecific, unknown or forgotten
WordNet 3.0
- n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Etymologies
- Alteration of thingumbob : obsolete thingum (from thing) + bob2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“First, there's this musicplasma thingamabob, which is essentially a graphical representation of related artists.”
“Took out the animated name thingamabob for now, it was causing problems.”
“Nonagenarian little old ladies can be easily identified by the fact that they’re each followed about by a thingamabob, which is a little bouncy squeaky thing, like a cross between a space hopper and a tribble, which won’t leave them alone.”
“If you spend a lot of time working on ISR issues, referring to “that surveillance thingamabob” is not going to cut it.”
“So Bob Millington, formerly of PHUK, has set up another webzine thingy, and thought it might be interesting to chat with meself in a wee interview thingamabob.”
“One thingamabob that is deftly oddball about most of them is that each is as dumb and stupid as the next”
“If we then this so, or death participants of the thingamabob!”
Fictionaut: Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
““Did your thingamabob transmit pictures or just sound?””
“Best: The Stress of Her Regard, intriguing title and lovely cover image tied with Lord Tophet for that kewl bridgecity thingamabob.”
“Will Shakespeare finds himself momentarily lost for words and invents a new one - thingamabob - which instantly becomes all the rage in Elizabethan England.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thingamabob’.
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Bob
He's everywhere.
bob, Bob, bobolink, nabob, bobbing, apple bobbing, Bob Dylan, ragtag and bobtail, plumb bob, kabob, discombobulate, earbob and 106 more...
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Sounds often heard during a search fo...
um, er, hmm, ah, well, �?��?��?�, erm, uh, um-um-um, ehm, anu, gizmo and 11 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Hold My Place
. . . apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind,
Such as--What d'ye call him--Thing'em-bob, and likewise--Never-mind,
and 'St--'st--'st--and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who-- <...whatchamacallit, thingamajig, doodad, doohickey, doojiggy, gizmo, whosis, whatsis, thingamabob, gadget, widget, jobby and 109 more...
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test
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Least Favorite Words
blog, painterly, choicest, evildoer, perpetrator, murmur, gab, schmooze, macerate, feeble, lusty, boobs and 72 more...
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thingie
pass me that...
thingy, whatsit, doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, whatchamacallit, doohickey, boojum, thingamabob, whatnot, widget, thingummy and 18 more...
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that mean "thing"
thingy, whatsit, dingus, deal, gizmo, hoobie, dealie, um, widget, gadget, whatchamacallit, doodad and 7 more...
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bentleyanne's Words
momtini, bershon, curmudgeon, cattywampus, swizzle, scrimshaw, rad, slim, loquacious, flank, baguette, chou and 40 more...
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