thingy

plural thingies · alternative thingie · alternative thingee

1. informalA thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).

   And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.

   1996, Antonio Skármeta, translated by Jonathan Tittler, Love-Fifteen, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, →ISBN, page 115

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   What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]

   2013, Iain Banks, Raw Spirit, page 60

   The incorporated technology is based on absolutely serious alt-fact science—that old familiar Einsteiny, time dilation thingy only in reverse— which also forms the basis of much of LaLa Valley's tech AI prowess.

   2023, Steve G Romaniuk, Tales from the Alternate Universe: Vol. 1

2. childisheuphemisticslangA penis.

   He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

   2004, Richard Tinsley, Walking on the Son

   Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga

alternative thingie · alternative thingee

1. informalA person whose name one cannot recall.

   He reminds me of thingy from that film.

comparative thingier · superlative thingiest

1. Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.

   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.

   2017, Francis Spufford, True Stories: And Other Essays, page 128

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   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, […]

   1985, A. S. Byatt, Still Life

1. Alternative letter-case form of thingy (“a person whose name one cannot recall”).

   He reminds me of Thingy from that film.