thingy
See also: Thingy
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɪŋiː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɪŋi/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋi
Noun
editthingy (plural thingies)
- (informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thingy
- (slang, euphemistic, childish) A penis.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
- 2004, Richard Tinsley, Walking on the Son:
- He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.
Translations
edita thing
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Adjective
editthingy (comparative thingier, superlative thingiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.
- 1985, A. S. Byatt, Still Life:
- 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, […]
- 2017, Francis Spufford, True Stories: And Other Essays, page 128:
- The secret of even the thingiest 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.
Pronoun
editthingy
- (informal) A person whose name one cannot recall.
- Hyponyms: what's-his-name, what's-her-name, what's-his-face, what's-her-face
- He reminds me of thingy from that film.
References
edit- “thingummy, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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