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thingy

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noun/ˈθɪŋiː//ˈθɪŋi/
  1. 1

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

    • And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.
    • What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]
  2. 2

    A penis.childisheuphemisticslang

    • He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

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pron/ˈθɪŋiː//ˈθɪŋi/
  1. 1

    A person whose name one cannot recall.informal

    • He reminds me of thingy from that film.
adj/ˈθɪŋiː//ˈθɪŋi/
  1. 1

    Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.

    • 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, […]
    • 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.

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