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▪ I. thingy, n.|ˈθɪŋɪ|
Also thingie, (occas. -ee).
[-y6, dim. suff.; cf. -ie.]
1. Sc. A little thing.
1888Barrie When a Man's Single (1900) 11/2 A speerity bit thingy she was.
2. = thing n.1 (in various senses); cf. thingummy. colloq.
1933Green & Stept (song-title) Swingy little thingy. 1968M. Richler Cocksure v. 32 It was going to be the rage. A thingee. Like TW3. 1977Spare Rib June 26/3 Then there are those women who make men wear things on their thingies. 1981J. Barnett Firing Squad xiii. 184 We don't do crime here... Contracts, copyright, companies floated, that's our thingie.
▪ II. thingy, a.|ˈθɪŋɪ|
[-y1.]
a. Having the nature or character of a thing; real, actual, objective, substantial; in quot. 1894, ? consisting of separate, independent, or unconnected things.
b. Devoting oneself to or concerned with actual things, practical, matter-of-fact.
1891Cent. Dict., Thingy, adj. 1894M. Schuyler in Forum (N.Y.) July 617 The government buildings have become more and more ‘thingy’, more and more compilations of ‘features’ that fail to make up a physiognomy.
So thinginess |ˈθɪŋɪnɪs|, the quality of being thingy; (a) reality, actuality, objectivity; (b) devotion to things, practical or matter-of-fact character.
1891Cent. Dict., Thinginess. 1914Morning Post 26 Feb. 2/2 Let us hear the second⁓hand eloquence of one of those second-rate authorities in his vain attempt to get at the thinginess of such things. 1962W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use v. 107 The ‘thinginess’ even of what we call ‘concrete objects’ is so inaccessible to the probe of our common language. 1976New Yorker 15 Mar. 118/2 The very thinginess of the contemporary city life in the film shows—the fast cars, the unobtrusive chic, the small cafes—seems to deprive us of any illumination. 1982T. Gunn Occasions of Poetry i. 22 He was in love with the bare fact of the external world, its thinginess. |