as in thingamajig
a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember
a drawer for all the thingamabobs that have fallen or broken off various items around the house
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Recent Examples of thingamabob
In fact, one of my abiding pleasures in life is finding small but transformative thingamabobs—frivolous and not at all necessary items that don’t cost much but can make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier.
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
Want to make a new crypto, or a new crypto thingamabob?
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Fans were just as curious about the casting for Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid as Ariel is about whozits, whatzits, and thingamabobs.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Maybe that Zack Snyder sci-fi thingamabob.
—WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
Say hello to the cutest new thingamabobs: Little Mermaid ears.
—Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 2 July 2019
What about all the thingamabobs, whozits, and whatzits galore?
—Willa Bennett, Seventeen, 4 Aug. 2017
Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
Want to make a new crypto, or a new crypto thingamabob?
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Fans were just as curious about the casting for Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid as Ariel is about whozits, whatzits, and thingamabobs.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Maybe that Zack Snyder sci-fi thingamabob.
—WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
Say hello to the cutest new thingamabobs: Little Mermaid ears.
—Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 2 July 2019
What about all the thingamabobs, whozits, and whatzits galore?
—Willa Bennett, Seventeen, 4 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thingamabob
Noun
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Lenovo’s claim appears to be that the Legion 9i can fully cool itself with this method, no thingamajig needed.—
Monica Chin,
The Verge,
1 Sep. 2023
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Shot in 2021, the film apparently featured a crew of Ukrainian gangsters as the henchmen of Hugh Grant’s billionaire arms dealer antagonist, Greg Simmonds (who is brokering the thingamajig deal).—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2023
Noun
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This model is basically an all-things-to-all people air-changing doohickey par excellence.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
31 Mar. 2025
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This model is basically an all-things-to-all people air-changing doohickey par excellence.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Now, the Entity intends to annihilate humanity in four days unless it can be taken offline by a key that accesses a gizmo in the Arctic Sea that connects to a whatsit that Ving Rhames’s weary Luther is attempting to invent from a makeshift hospital bed somewhere in the subway tunnels of London.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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In this intricately improvised whatsit, Indonesian immigrants Asri and Hasan convene every day at twilight hour, in the heart of Taiwan’s oldest city, to share the day’s news and experiences, spinning second-hand tales of migrant struggle into rhapsodically spontaneous verse.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Neighbor-bully-jerkface Trey takes the bolt cutters to the tunnel’s electrical whatchamacallits, which causes a minor explosion and opens up that wicked grate that got Matty in ’94.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
11 Jan. 2025
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Also: how in the name of Philadelphia Flyers hockey legend Bobby Clarke did this show get Gritty, the giant orange whatchamacallit who is the Flyers mascot, as its opening night guest star?—
Gene Seymour,
CNN,
22 Sep. 2022
Noun
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The big challenge, and the thing that worries me most going forward when the president talks about doing deals with Iran and Gaza and whatnot, is implementation.—
Obed Manuel,
NPR,
15 May 2025
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There are different challenges of figuring out a team that’s trying to take you out of your rhythm or your patterns or whatnot.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Companion, meanwhile, quickly makes clear what a dingus Josh is; the film seems uninterested in deeper character study, instead just generating turns aplenty to keep up the momentum.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Don’t let some emotionally immature dingus shake you.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Thingamabob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thingamabob. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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