How To Use Thingummy In A Sentence
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We don't - it's all being done by some start-up venture thingummy company.
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I must say, I mean, it sounded like er thingummyjig all over again without the politics.
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And it has been accentuated by leaving the thingummybob, "he struggles slightly for a second," The South Bank Show.
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It has a standard screen at the top, keys at the bottom, with a joystick thingummy in the middle.
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Oh, just a little ... what shall I say? ... a little touch of what-d'you-call-it and a bit of thingummy.
Jill the Reckless
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Now how’s that thingummyjig that your uncle gave you?
Presumption of Death
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Lost in Showbiz doffs its chapeau to Vogue for doing our job for us this week with its Tom Wolfe-esque feature about who the "party people" will vote for in that general election thingummybob.
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Whether it's here or whether it's there, they're doing some musical thingummyjig.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether it’s here or whether it’s there, they’re doing some musical thingummyjig.
RNB QuickLinks: Tap-dancing Islamists; Islamists against cucumbers; OT8 Scientologist on the radio, and more…
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`You bribed Elvis to plant a thingummy in Harry Sheiling's computer!
STAGE FRIGHT
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Sure your boys might have lost both their pants and their game thingummyjig but the best is yet to come, something that will absolutely have you rehanging your bunting, repainting your cheek and rechanting those songs that rely more on slurred sentiment than coherent lyrics.
To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash
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'By jove,' I said, 'it's like a sort of thingummybob, isn't it?
The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories
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I once bought a thingummy out of one of those catalogues.
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thingummybob" and her foreman assures her that his son, serving in the RN, has been told of strange vessels with what look like big boxes stacked on the deck sailing towards China.
Army Rumour Service
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So when I need to know what the black rubbery thingummy on a windscreen wiper is called, I can look up windscreen wiper in the index, turn to the appropriate picture, and learn that it's a wiper blade rubber.
The Naming of Parts
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Turned out that it wasn’t THAT sort of vacuum pump - they don't cost anything like five grand anyway - but a "sous vide" thingummyjig that modern chefs use for poaching a chicken breast for three hours and two minutes at 102. 4° and that sort of mallarkey.)
Swingers’ Guide To South Africa
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Some people just don't get this mobile thingummyjig.
Archive 2006-02-01
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The Stoke City boss has admitted to being an admirer of both, but Hit F5 or the auto-update thingummybob for the latest posts.
WN.com - Articles related to Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson to star in new Simon Pegg comedy 'Burke and Hare'
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See, once again one of my posts on this site presages a new trend at the cutting-edge of the doodah thingummybob.
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So this newspaper thingummybob (OK, the New York Times, if you're going be annoying like Katie Couric and demand specifics) has managed to find Sarah's personal stylist for the campaign, a woman by the name of Lisa Kline.
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It may amuse some to find thingummy replaced by doodackie, to hear a sausage called a snarler or to hear he did his bun for ` he was angry '.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
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Oh, just a little ... what shall I say? ... a little touch of what-d'you-call-it and a bit of thingummy.
Jill the Reckless
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But we had to reshoot the scenes at the villa between Judy and the blackmailer, after Arthur's heart attack, with - thingummy - Jeremy Fox.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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It's not a very clear picture but that is an ovulation test stick thingummy.
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It was David thingummy --- Stevenson --- Dad's clerk of chambers or whatever he is.
LOSING IT
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'It's all over, Mrs. Thingummy! ' said the surgeon at last.
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However, when it comes to the old religion and war thingummy, I feel religions get it really, really badly in the neck.
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