What (who) is thingie - definition
thingie
Same as thingamajig
Pass me that, um, you know, that thingie over there...the blue one.
Pass me that, um, you know, that thingie over there...the blue one.
Pronunciation examples for thingie
1. "The thingies."
Robert Kaplan _ Talks at Google
2. What do you mean thingies?
Robert Kaplan _ Talks at Google
3. "All those thingies are 21."
Robert Kaplan _ Talks at Google
4. and get one of those grabby thingies.
Barney Swan _ Skiing to The South Pole on Renewable Energy _ Talks at Google
5. that there's some magic non-thing thingie that gets
Neither Ghost nor Machine _ Jeremy Sherman _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of thingie
1. Still, this early–life–crisis thingie is intriguing.
2. This year I saw a baffling but intriguing physical–theatre thingie about lurve staged in a bedroom at the Caledonian Hotel.
3. I thought that was a totally original concept, until I dimly recalled seeing a baffling but intriguing thingie about lurve staged in a hotel bedroom at the festival in the late 1'70s. (Or perhaps that was my honeymoon.