thingy

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You forgot the word thingy, Mark, since the notion has gone through just about every name and variation imaginable.

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  1. Material; like a material object; objective; actual; real.
  2. Materialistic; practical; given to thinginess; pragmatical: as, a thingy person or view. [Recent in both uses.]

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  • There is a neato search thingy, and also, if you click on "Older," you won't get older any faster, but a little slider will come up with which you can kind of randomly dip back into the archives.
  • They can find a hint as to the reasons the ABC thingy is a total fiction in at least one Bond Papers post. —  Sir Robert Bond Papers
  • You forgot the word thingy, Mark, since the notion has gone through just about every name and variation imaginable. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • I am pairing it with a chartreuse / gold bauble necklace thingy, and am unsure about the shoes (guessing black). —  ArmyWifeToddlerMom
  • I swore I would not do the Shelfari or Goodreads thingy, and well, I have something set up, I just don't know how the hell to use it. —  Murder She Writes
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