| 单词 | thingamajig |
| 释义 | thingamajigor thing·u·ma·jig[ thing-uh-muh-jig ] / ˈθɪŋ ə məˌdʒɪg / SEE SYNONYMS FOR thingamajig ON THESAURUS.COM noun Informal.a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name. Also called thing·a·ma·bob, thing·u·ma·bob [thing-uh-muh-bob]; /ˈθɪŋ ə məˌbɒb/; thing·um·bob [thing-uhm-bob] /ˈθɪŋ əmˌbɒb/ . Origin of thingamajigFirst recorded in 1870–75; thingum or thingummy + jig1, metrically patterned like gobbledygook,rigamarole;thingum perhaps originally from the gradational compound thingum-thangum (based on thing1) with the same terminal syllable as in crinkum-crankum,harum-scarum, trinkum-trankum, perhaps dog Latin or a facetious alteration of trinkets Words nearby thingamajigthine, thin edge of the wedge, thin film, thing, thingamabob, thingamajig, T hinge, thing-in-itself, thingness, thing or two, things are looking up Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for thingamajig
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