thingamajig
thingamabob
thingumabob
thingummy
thingummybob
thingy , also: thingie
thingumajig

And how much did you get for the little thingamajigs?"

Always coming around in the dead of night with their categorical thingamajig.

"You need some help with that there plasma thingamajig?"

"You got a thingamajig that says you're a detective?"

What do you call the whosy at the end of thingamajig?

An ad for the greatest thingamajig ever stops you.

"Can you also copy the contents to another thingamajig?"

Do you need a doohickey, a whatchamacallit or a thingamajig?

They always offer tons of kid appeal, and most include at least one battery-operated thingamajig.

"As you say, not without the thingamajigs and whatchamacallits."

"But in the meantime, don't look so worried, I'm sure your thingamajig will turn up."

It had a red and yellow cover and the word "Thingamajigs" was across the front in big letters.

The Magic Thingamajig is usually, though not always, the object of the quest.

In the workshop was a bench on which a thingamajig was under construction.

Seemed to me that a magic thingamajig could get someone into more trouble than it would get him out of.

The entire thingamajig was painted vivid shades of red.

He also directed the popular music series, Thingamajig.

We can pick various sizes and break the thingamajigs off and such."

Stuff - material possessions, goodies, thingamajigs - was spiritual dead weight.

He's rigged up some kind of text-message-map-gateway thingamajig so you can track their progress.

Using "doohickey" or "thingamajig" lacks a certain credibility, she acknowledges.

Remember when he swiped that lieutenant commander's thingamajig off the hook in gym class.

There's foamy orange liquid inside the thingamajig; if I break the glass, it'll spill all over.

"You say you're goin' to get sky pictures with that thingamajig when it's all done?"

This new multimedia thingamajig allows you to discover things on your own through the wondrous use of the hypermedia approach to education.

You know, one of those things-- when is a thingamabob not a such and such?

The thingamabob dipped below the murky depths and emerged bearing a new message.

Gaea has ordered me to de-fusticate the thingamabob at once."

She peered into its tiny window and waited for the triangular thingamabob to surface with its reply.

On another outing, it was Derrick who fixed the broken thingamabob that holds the sail to the top of the mast.

Quinn replied, "Some kind of scanner thingamabob.

Bob the Tomato (Thingamabob)

According to Fleetway comics, T-Bob was short for Thingamabob.

TINDERS Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater, Thingamabob.

Sharper Image, the thingamabob emporium, sells the StarTAC Mobile Organizer, for example.

"I just went back to the room to get my thingamabob when the next thing I knew all the alarms were going off and I thought, where's my darling hubby?"

"Captain," the doctor began, as he ran some humming multilight flashing thingamabob over her left shoulder, "I really must protest the conversion of my sickbay into Botany Bay.

Belching and hissing steam as frantic workers feed it sheets, this locomotive-size thingamabob dominates the Blue Ribbon Laundry, a hellish industrial cleaning plant in northern New England.

THINGAMABOB, A HUMBLE SERVANT Oh, what have I got myself into?

They are able, it seems, to deal with whatever comes up - a sudden gust, a tangled rudder, a twisted halyard, even an improperly welded thingamabob that breaks in a gale, sending the sail down the mast.

They are known as Schtroumpfs (a nonsense word coined by their creator to mean thingamabob) in Belgium, as de Smurfen in Dutch and as die Schlümpfe in German.

THINGAMABOB, A HUMBLE SERVANT My name's Lancaster, ma'am.

I want our tech people to look into some sort of firewall thingamabob whereby a customer's MasterCard number isn't posted on the zipper in Times Square when he hits the "Enter" button to order a dreidel.

If the reader will move back, I will zip this column to my copy editor in New York as soon as I can find the right thingamabob, doohickey, whatchamacallit, whoozadingy or sucker to hit on this weird ergonomic keyboard.

THINGAMABOB, A HUMBLE SERVANT I'm delighted to have this opportunity and I'll be doing everything I can to make sure that we behave a lot better at the next ball.

A pair of bright blue eyes appeared in the 8-Ball window before the thingamabob replied, REPEAT YOUR QUESTION, ALL WILL BECOME CLEAR.

I put down my tools-- I'd been working on a Tom Swiftian thingamabob I called an Interociter, a dandy little gadget that would warn me of the approach of the Alphans' dreaded Extrogator, a space reptile big enough to (hasn't this foolishness gone on long enough?)

Tom, could you grind a sharp point an' a barb on this thingumabob?"

The bag was one of those simple bags with a thingummy which you press.

Oh I say, the thingummy, the rhyme, it meant me!

Look, there's a sort of a thingummy, a tiny scoop-out like a cave at the top.

"Where has the thingummy got to, I wonder?"

"Still think it's just a normal engine thingummy?"

And the trouble is with not moving that thingummy builds up and then you get this very bad cough down your chest.

I was trying to get a perfect adjustment, and I must have twiddled the wrong thingummy."

"You can bet your fluffy bedsocks it does, young thingummy.

The velvet thingummy rather than the iron what's-its-name.

"All I did was twiddle a thingummy."

"They didn't use the mind thingummy on the Drassi?"

I say, Dandin, can you recall the next part of that rhyme thingummy?"

Max and I'll take on you and Commander Thingummy.

This is the bra that delivers "a range of cleavage," thanks to a clasp thingummy at your sternum.

Four score and thingummy.

"That thingummy in the corner, ha?

That's George the first, not the King George the thingummy who lost the war of Independence."

"Look at their garments," I thought, "clinging like cerements, in thingummy, hunger and dirt, singing the song of the shirt."

I'll bet a salad to a soupbowl it was old slyboots, the masked thingummy.

But tell me your news first-how did y'get on with old thingummy Warface?"

Norman Thingummy.'

Compared with many postmodern skyscrapers, snappy building skins held together by who knows what kind of thingummy inside, the forum is the soul of integrity.

Jogging along to Thingummy, eh?"

"What sorta thingummy?

"Koitska wants your thingummy.

This thingy on the left side looked like the safety.

I just couldn't figure out how to get the thingy on.

I got to come on and do the voice thingy."

On the other hand, all these thingies are the trimmings.

You actually made me doubt myself and the date thingy on the computer.

I knew from the classes we had in school what that meant, He wanted to put his thingy inside me.

And your Bush word game post thingy from a few weeks ago was fantastic too.

At any rate, the police believe in peacock thingies now.

Also, how do you make those little bread thingies with the tomatoes on top?

"Poor scared thingy bit me when the lights went out."

Little thingy just wants what we all want, baby.

It's probably too big for her thingy or something.

It's probably got one of those self adjusting thingies has it?

And thingies that you can hold in your hand.

"Just heard a sort of report thingy from Number Two."

And the little thingy, where it tells the selections, that's there.

Wouldn't it be something if my guys could swim through the thingy?

I think if it makes any difference to you we've got a thingy whirring away there.

From there they take a stairway thingy up to the next ship after that, which is very big.

The electronic thingies work a treat but you do need to site them properly.

"Maybe we should get her one of those wheel thingies," Buffy said.

How many of those little Power Cube thingies do you have around your house?

The draw and opening thingy are being held there.

Wanted to do a bird thingy over the ocean.

And while we're about it, why don't we see if movies can be put on these tape thingies too?