thingy

thingy

English

Alternative forms

• thingie

Etymology

From thing +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪŋiː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪŋi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋi

Noun

thingy (plural thingies)

1. (informal) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
2. (slang, euphemistic) Penis.
   • 2004, Richard Tinsley, Walking on the Son

     He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:thingy

Translations

a thing

Catalan: daixonses Finnish: juttu (fi), kapine, vekotin (fi) French: truc (fr), machin (fr) Galician: conto (gl) m, couso m Georgian: რაღაცა (raɣaca) German: Dings (de), Dingsbums (de), Dingsda (de) Greek: μαραφέτι (el) n (maraféti) Hungarian: izé (hu), micsoda (hu), hogyishívják Italian: coso (it), qualcosa (it) Maori: mea Navajo: ńléí, eidí, eii

Norwegian: duppeditt m, dippedutt m Bokmål: dingsbums (no) m Persian: چیز‎ (fa) Polish: wihajster (pl) m Portuguese: treco (pt) Romanian: chestie (ro) f Russian: шту́чка (ru) f (štúčka), штуко́вина (ru) f (štukóvina) Spanish: chisme (es) m, chirimbolo (es) m, coso (es) m (Argentina, Chile) Swedish: grej (sv) c, pryl (sv) c, manick (sv) c Vietnamese: gì đó

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on placeholder names

Anagrams

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