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* {{a|RP}} {{IPA|en|/ˈθɪŋiː/|a=RP}}

* {{a|GenAm}} {{IPA|en|/ˈθɪŋi/|a=GenAm}}

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# {{lb|en|informal}} A [[thing]] {{q|used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name}}.

# {{lb|en|slang|euphemism|childish}} A [[penis|Penis]].

* Finnish: {{t+|fi|juttu}}, {{t+|fi|kapine}}, {{t+|fi|vekotin}}

* French: {{t+|fr|trucbidule|m}}, {{t+|fr|machin|m}}, {{t+|fr|truc|m}}, {{t+|fr|chose|f}}

* Galician: {{t+|gl|conto|m}}, {{t|gl|couso|m}}, {{t+|gl|aquel|m}}, {{t|gl|aqueloutro|m}}, {{t|gl|aquela|f}}

* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|izé}}, {{t+|hu|micsoda}}, {{t+|hu|hogyishívják}}

* Italian: {{t+|it|coso}}, {{t+|it|qualcosa}}, {{t+|it|robo|m}}

* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|treco}}, {{t+|pt|negócio|m}}, {{t+|pt|bagaça|f}}, {{t+|pt|coisa|f}}, {{t+|pt|troço|m}}, {{t+|pt|bagulho|m}}, {{t+|pt|cena}}

#* '''{{quote-text|en|year=1985''', |author=A. S. Byatt, ''|title=Still Life''

#*: |passage=The most unpleasant, and also the '''thingiest''', the central thing in Foreign Parts, was a giant banyan tree, putting out more and more suckers which created tangled arches, a swollen hiding-place of a tree, a series of organic traps, {{...}}}}

#* '''{{quote-book|en|year=2017''', |author=Francis Spufford, ''|title=True Stories: And Other Essays'' (|page =128)

#*: |passage=The secret of even the '''thingiest''' [[science fiction|SF]], the most solid-walnut-to-the-knuckles fantasy, is that you don't need much to summon worlds out of air, so long as the details are the right ones.}}