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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From thing + -y.
Pronunciation
Noun
thingy (plural thingies)
- (informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
- (slang, euphemistic, childish) A penis.
2004, Richard Tinsley, Walking on the Son:He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.
Synonyms
Translations
a thing
- Basque: zera
- Bulgarian: как се казваше (kak se kazvaše)
- Catalan: daixonses (ca), fòtil (ca)
- Dutch: dinges (nl) m
- Esperanto: umo (eo)
- Finnish: juttu (fi), kapine (fi), vekotin (fi)
- French: bidule (fr) m, machin (fr) m, truc (fr) m, chose (fr) f
- Galician: conto (gl) m, couso m, aquel (gl) m, aqueloutro m, aquela f
- Georgian: რაღაცა (raɣaca)
- German: Dings (de), Dingsbums (de), Dingsda (de), Etwas (de)
- Greek: μαραφέτι (el) n (maraféti), μαντζαφλάρι (el) n (mantzaflári)
- Ancient: σκινδαψός m (skindapsós)
- Hungarian: izé (hu), micsoda (hu), hogyishívják (hu)
- Italian: coso (it), qualcosa (it), robo (it) m
- Japanese: あれ (ja) (are), やつ (ja) (yatsu)
- 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), negócio (pt) m, bagaça (pt) f, coisa (pt) f, troço (pt) m, bagulho (pt) m
- Romanian: chestie (ro) f
- Russian: шту́ка (ru) f (štúka), шту́чка (ru) f (štúčka), штуко́вина (ru) f (štukóvina)
- Spanish: chisme (es) m, chirimbolo (es) m, coso (es) m (Latin America), chunche (es) m (Mexico, Central America)
- Swedish: grej (sv) c, pryl (sv) c, manick (sv) c, tingest (sv) c
- Vietnamese: gì đó
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Adjective
thingy (comparative thingier, superlative thingiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.
1985, A. S. Byatt, Still Life:The most unpleasant, and also the thingiest, the central thing in Foreign Parts, was a giant banyan tree, putting out more and more suckers which created tangled arches, a swollen hiding-place of a tree, a series of organic traps, […]
2017, Francis Spufford, True Stories: And Other Essays, page 128:The secret of even the thingiest SF, the most solid-walnut-to-the-knuckles fantasy, is that you don't need much to summon worlds out of air, so long as the details are the right ones.
Pronoun
thingy
- (informal) A person whose name one cannot recall.
- Hyponyms: what's-his-name, what's-her-name, what's-his-face, what's-her-face
He reminds me of thingy from that film.
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