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
Wicks ends up dead, stabbed in the back with a sinister-looking thingamabob.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Dec. 2025
But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
Since the pandemic cooking boom left home chefs enamored with countertop gear, the appetite has shifted to smarter machines that can replace a fleet of gadgets—air fryer, toaster, dehydrator, slow cooker, even that sous-vide thingamabob—without swallowing up half the kitchen.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Dec. 2025
But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
Since the pandemic cooking boom left home chefs enamored with countertop gear, the appetite has shifted to smarter machines that can replace a fleet of gadgets—air fryer, toaster, dehydrator, slow cooker, even that sous-vide thingamabob—without swallowing up half the kitchen.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thingamabob
Noun
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And this doesn’t include the little four-facial-expression thingamajigs in airport restrooms that ask you to rank cleanliness by touching them.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
28 Dec. 2025
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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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That is the fateful question seemingly posed by this new Pixar installment, which picks up on the familiar parenting conundrum about screentime as Woody, Buzz and the gang encounter a new doohickey in the playroom – a tablet.—
Dan Heching,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
10 Oct. 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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Analysts work on the bottom floor; operatives work on the top floor, which is basically internal affairs for the CIA, FBI, NSA and whatnot.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Dec. 2025
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Don't go so deep as to like count calories and whatnot, my thing is eating whole foods.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
24 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Here, this happily deluded dingus is played by a modern master of the type, David Cross.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025
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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
Cite this Entry
“Thingamabob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thingamabob. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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