Thesaurus:thingy
English
Noun
Sense: placeholder name for inanimate objects
Synonyms
- Sorted by number of Google hits
- Sorted alphabetically
- affair
- bazinga
- bizzo
- dealie
- dealy
- dinglehopper
- dingus
- dohickey
- dojigger
- dongle
- doo-hickey
- doober
- doodad
- doodah
- doofer
- doohickey
- doohickus
- doohinkey
- doohinkus
- doojigger
- doovalacky
- foobar
- foo
- frammis
- frobnitz
- gadget
- geegaw
- gewgaw
- gimmick
- gingambob
- gingumbob
- gismo
- gizmo
- gubbins
- hickey
- hodad
- hootenanny (obsolete)
- jawn
- jigger
- jimbang
- jobber
- jobby
- joint [⇒ thesaurus]
- junk [⇒ thesaurus]
- kajigger
- kludge [⇒ thesaurus]
- MacGuffin
- oojamaflip
- rigamajig
- shebang
- stuff
- thingabob
- thingamabob
- thingamabobber
- thingamafuck (vulgar)
- thingamajigger
- thingamajiggy
- thingamajig
- thingie
- thingmabob
- thingmajig
- thingmy (chiefly Scotland)
- thingo
- thingumabob
- thingumajig
- thingummabob
- thingummajig
- thingummyjig
- thingummy
- thingum
- thingymabob
- thingymajig
- thingy
- thing
- ting
- whachacallit
- whachamacallit
- whaddayacallit
- whatchacallit
- whatchamacallit
- whatchamahoozie
- whatdyecallem
- whatdoyoucallit
- whatnot
- whatsaname [⇒ thesaurus]
- whatsis
- whatsitsname (UK)
- whatsit
- whiff-whaff (UK)
- whosiewhatsit
- whosit
- widget
- wossisname
- wossname
- wotsit
- yoke (Irish)
- yokibus (Irish)
Hypernyms
See also
- Thesaurus:whatshisname (person)
- Category:English placeholder terms
- Placeholder name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- “565. misnomer” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “thingy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- (widget*0.15), (gimmick*0.5), hickey, gizmo, thingy, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins, whatsit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.