thingummy

IPA: θˈɪŋˈʌmi

Synonym of thingy: something one cannot remember the name of, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
Synonym of whatshisname: someone one cannot remember the name of.

Examples of "thingummy" in Sentences

I knew about the indirect costs thingummy, but thanks for the other info anyhow
It seemed to roe that there was a sort of something in her voice, a kind of thingummy, you know.
We have presumptuously misjudged the colonials once again and I blame the old ‘separated-by-a-common-tongue’ thingummy-jig.
Nobody looks across the border of their country and says, What a lovely thingummy they have over there in that other country.
Come see me at the children's book breakfast, the auction, the Balzer + Bray launch, the Macmillan desserts thingummy, the Common Ground party...
It was brutally interrupted when a water thingummy broke in the next room the bathroom, not the bedroom - I would be in a state if it were the unplumbed bedroom and life started flooding.
But recently she woke up early from her nap when I, tuckered from bathttub scrubbing (which, may I say, loving the magic eraser thingummy!), had sat down to watch What Not To Wear for a bit until she woke.
What id this facial of oddness that I dreamer when it tilts itself backbencher and curlews with a covering of vintage like tasters and gets to making an expulsion as it lives its true lifeguard in the landfall, a different and frighting thingummy of the landfall?