thingy

English

Alternative forms

• thingie
• thingee

Etymology

From thing +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪŋiː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪŋi/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋi

Noun

thingy (plural thingies)

1. (informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall its name).
2. (slang, euphemistic) Penis.
   • 2004, Richard Tinsley, Walking on the Son:

     He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:thingy

Translations

a thing

• Bulgarian: как се казваше (kak se kazvaše)
• Catalan: daixonses (ca)
• Dutch: dinges (nl) m
• Esperanto: umo (eo)
• Finnish: juttu (fi), kapine, vekotin (fi)
• French: truc (fr), machin (fr)
• Galician: conto (gl) m, couso m, aquel (gl) m, aqueloutro m
• 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
• Italian: coso (it), qualcosa (it)
• 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)
• 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

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on placeholder names

Anagrams

• nighty

References

• “thingummy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.