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thingummy colloq.|ˈθɪŋəmɪ|
Also 8 thing-o-me, thing-o'-me, 9 thing-o-my, thingamy, -ammy, -ummie, -umy.
[f. thingum + -y (?dim.).]
Used (in undignified speech) to indicate vaguely a thing (or person) of which the speaker cannot at the moment recall the name, or which he is at a loss or does not care to specify precisely; a ‘what-you-may-call-it’. Also in extended form thingummytight (-tite, etc.).
1796F. Burney Camilla III. 259 Poor miss thing-o'-me's hat is spoilt already. 1803Fessenden Terr. Tractor. iv. (ed. 2) 174 note, The little whalebone thingamy which the Duke of Queensbury run at New Market. 1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 38, I mean only to tune up those little thing-o-mys, who represent nobody but themselves. 1819‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 101 A passport to a brilliant court Where all great thingummies resort. 1862Thackeray Philip viii, What a bloated aristocrat Thingamy has become! 1904Times 11 Jan. 12/2 Mr. So-and-so has..‘entrusted’ its little carcase to Mr. Thingummy, birdstuffer. 1937G. Frankau More of Us xvii. 177 Quick. The small green phial. It's in my bathroom. In the thingummytight—The corner cupboard. 1939J. Cary Mister Johnson 23 What's the trouble? Why, it's thingummytite, aren't you? 1977D. Clark Gimmel Flask viii. 147 We've got a thingumitite with us...a sort of visionary. Young cops with fantouche ideas! 1980D. Bogarde Gentle Occupation i. 21 Nothing in the taps of course because the terrorists had buggered up the hydroelectric thingummytites. |