thingamajig

English

Alternative forms

thingumajig

Etymology

Unknown. Compare thingum, thingamabob, etc..

Noun

thingamajig (plural thingamajigs)

(slang) Something that one does not know the name of.
He used this, this... this thingamajig you saw him with the other day to fix the problem.

Synonyms

Translations

something that one does not know the name of

Chinese:
Mandarin: 玩意兒 (zh), 玩意儿 (zh) (wányìr)
Dutch: dinges (nl) n
Finnish: härveli (fi)
French: truc (fr) m, bidule (fr) m, (Quebec) patente (fr) f, machin (fr), trucmuche (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Dingsbums (de) n, Dingsda‎ (de)

Hungarian: izé (hu)
Italian: coso (it)
Maori: mea
Polish: wihajster (pl) m
Portuguese: coisa (pt) f
Russian: штуко́вина (ru) f (štukóvina)
Swedish: grunka (sv) c

See also

Wikipedia article on placeholder names

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