Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Something difficult to classify or whose name has been forgotten or is not known.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thingumbob.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that one does not know the name of.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Etymologies
- Alteration of obsolete thingum (from thing) + jig1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“She has some kind of thingamajig like this that helps her ...”
“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.”
“You push that thingamajig the boy has in his hand, to control the nails rising up.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Tony Phillips: But Mitt, I Don't Own One of Those Do-Hickeys
“But I like 8a, a versatile catch-all for "stuff", and "thingamajig" don't fit.”
“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?
“Goverment's involvement isn't limited on financial aid and strategic matters, but also to thingamajig affairs.”
Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Controversial new film law
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thingamajig’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 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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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 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 456 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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RabidCow's Words
piledrive, schism, poignant, garrote, reflex, fortitude, constitution, dexterity, charisma, nemesis, machiavellian, poop and 128 more...
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The Little Things
minutiae, thingamajig, wee, doodad, nuts 'n' bolts, widget, speck, mote, mite, modicum, iota, nano and 7 more...
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nls07235's list
Fun Words
kiddiewampus, margo, zaouse, jensi, thingamajig, ninkumpoop, narf, maren, dewong, ittybitty, zing, bam and 5 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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Word Nerd
galore, nitty gritty, creepy, spooky, faltschnitzel, orkweibchen, shiny, thingy, vendetta, extravaganza, awesome, kolophon and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for thingamajig.
vanishedone Also a component in the Mousetrap board game. May 31, 2008
slumry doohickey Jul 25, 2007