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English
Noun
Sense: placeholder name for inanimate objects
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- “565. misnomer” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “thingy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- (widget*0.15), (gimmick*0.5), hickey, gizmo, thingy, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins, whatsit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.