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thingy

sostantivopronomeaggettivoattestato nei dialoghi

  • Regno Unito//ˈθɪŋiː//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈθɪŋi//

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

sostantivo

  1. 1

    informaleA 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.

  2. 2

    gergoA penis.

    He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

Etimologia

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).

pronome

  1. 1

    informaleA person whose name one cannot recall.

    He reminds me of thingy from that film.

aggettivo

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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.

Etimologia

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).

Forme

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thingies
comparativo
thingier
superlativo
thingiest
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

Posizione tra le parole del corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — sottotitoli di film e serie, quindi lingua parlata e non scritta (CC BY-SA 3.0).