Citations:thingmy

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English citations of thingmy

Adjective: "(informal, chiefly Scotland) agitated, flustered, in a lather"

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  • 1996 — Ann Laybourn, Jane Brown, & Malcolm Hill, Hurting on the Inside: Children's Experiences of Parental Alcohol Abuse, Avebury (1996), →ISBN, page 54:
    I was thingmy myself, right enough and he kept shouting that he was going to kill me and put me in a box, a blood bath and all this.
  • 2005Qualitative Research in Health Care (ed. Immy Holloway), Open University Press (2005), →ISBN, page 68:
    If a guy is going to get thingmy when he sees a women pull her breast out then he is not much a guy is he.
  • 2011 — Alison Irivine, The Road Is Red, Luath Press (2011), →ISBN, page 264:
    "We don't expect to run out but she's just really hungry, you know, and my girlfriend's thingmy, she's a bit down in the dumps so I don't want to leave her, you know."

Noun: "(informal, chiefly Scotland) thing"

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  • 1991 — Ian MacDougall, Voices from the Hunger Marches: Personal Reflections by Scottish Hunger Marchers of the 1920s and 1930s, Polygon (1991), →ISBN, page 156:
    Phil, he was a brilliant wee thingmy, but they were in the rooms, ye see.
  • 1992Margaret Bennett, Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave, Polygon (1992), →ISBN, page 69:
    [] they came right round the crown but the girls' wis the hood shape, you know the bonnet shape wi the thingmy, you know, an the veil; []
  • 2000 — Susie Maguire, The Short Hello, Polygon (2000), →ISBN:
    It was a huge, massive great place, with loads of people dragging lights around, and tiers of seating, and a big blonde woman wearing earmuff thingmies, []
  • 2001 — Ian MacDougall, Voices of Leith Dockers: Personal Recollections of Working Lives, Mercat (2001), →ISBN:
    Then toilets, durin' the war they still had the dry bluidy thingmies, ah'm sure it wis — dry closets.
  • 2006 — Scott Creighton, Something Went Bump, White Saltire Press (2006), →ISBN, page 30:
    'Right boys, best of order here! We're gonnae for to have for oorselves th'day a wee vote thingmy. []
  • 2012 — David Russell, Last Dance, Durdurn Press (2012), →ISBN, page 379:
    They were able to trace the exact IP address of the computer that sent the text message using some sort of encrypto-static-demobilizer thingmy.
    2017 — JOHN DONOGHUE, fit the hingmy to the hingmy and let the hingmy set before moving the hingmy []