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Definition of Thingy
1. Noun. A thing (''used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thingy
1. a thingumajig [n THINGIES] / real [adj THINGIER, THINGIEST] - See also: real
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thingy
Literary usage of Thingy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cookbook for Men Whose Wives Don't Cook by Christopher Hamilton (2006)
"We've all been in the kitchen with you, cooking your dinner with her when she
asks you to pass her the curly thingy. Yes, it's right under the pointy thingy ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1767)
"... him to do a thingy which, I apprehended, he bad no power to do-; for as the
oath is appointed by law, he had no power to wave it. ..."
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