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thingy

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A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).

Substantiv

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    umgangssprachlichA thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).

    And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.

    What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]

    The incorporated technology is based on absolutely serious alt-fact science—that old familiar Einsteiny, time dilation thingy only in reverse— which also forms the basis of much of LaLa Valley's tech AI prowess.

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    SlangA penis.

    He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tenk-? Proto-Indo-European *tenkóm Proto-Germanic *þingą Proto-West Germanic *þing Old English þing Middle English thing English thing Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English thingy From thing + -y (diminutive suffix).

Pronomen

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    umgangssprachlichA person whose name one cannot recall.

    He reminds me of thingy from that film.

Adjektiv

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    Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.

    The most unpleasant, and also the thingiest, the central thing in Foreign Parts, was a giant banyan tree, putting out more and more suckers which created tangled arches, a swollen hiding-place of a tree, a series of organic traps, […]

    The secret of even the thingiest SF, the most solid-walnut-to-the-knuckles fantasy, is that you don't need much to summon worlds out of air, so long as the details are the right ones.

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tenk-? Proto-Indo-European *tenkóm Proto-Germanic *þingą Proto-West Germanic *þing Old English þing Middle English thing English thing Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English thingy From thing + -y (adjectival suffix).

Formen

Plural
thingies
Komparativ
thingier
Superlativ
thingiest
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

Lexikalische Inhalte aus dem Wiktionary, unter CC BY-SA 4.0 · Quelleintrag · Datenstand 2026-08-23

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