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English
Etymology
From thing + -y
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -ɪŋi
Noun
thingy (plural thingies )
( informal ) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall ).
( slang , euphemistic ) Penis .
2004 , Richard Tinsley, Walking on the Son :He pulled out his thingy . It was huge.
Synonyms
Translations
a thing
Catalan: daixonses
Finnish: juttu (fi) , kapine , vekotin (fi)
French: truc (fr) , machin (fr)
Galician: conto (gl) m , couso m
Georgian: რაღაცა ( raɣaca )
German: Dings (de) , Dingsbums (de) , Dingsda (de)
Greek: μαραφέτι (el) n ( maraféti )
Ancient: σκινδαψός m ( skindapsós )
Hungarian: izé (hu) , micsoda (hu) , hogyishívják
Italian: coso (it) , qualcosa (it)
Maori: mea
Navajo: ńléí , eidí , eii
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Norwegian: duppeditt m , dippedutt m
Bokmål: dingsbums (no) m
Persian: چیز (fa)
Polish: wihajster (pl) m
Portuguese: treco (pt)
Romanian: chestie (ro) f
Russian: шту́чка (ru) f ( štúčka ) , штуко́вина (ru) f ( štukóvina )
Spanish: chisme (es) m , chirimbolo (es) m , coso (es) m ( Argentina, Chile )
Swedish: grej (sv) c , pryl (sv) c , manick (sv) c
Vietnamese: gì đó
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