| 释义 |
thingum colloq. ? Obs. exc. dial.|ˈθɪŋəm|
Also 9 thing'em.
[f. thing n.1, with meaningless suffix.]
= thingummy. (In first quot. in reduplicated form thingum thangum: cf. crinkum-crankum.)
1680Otway Atheist iv. i, With a deep Point Thingum Thangum over her Shoulders. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 45 (1713) II. 38 Is there no News from the Thingum in the Old Baily? 1741Chesterfield Let. to Son 6 Aug., To speak of Mr. What-d'ye-call-him, or Mrs. Thingum, or How-d'ye-call-her, is excessively awkward and ordinary. 1793Fitzgerald in Europ. Mag. XXIII. 387 All your bunch of thingums. 1808M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 11 What were you saying, Mr. Thing'em?
So in extended forms thingumary |ˈθɪŋəmərɪ|, (thingummarie, thing-a-merry), thingumajig |ˈθɪŋəmədʒɪg|, (thingymyjig, etc.). See also next two words.
1819‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 146 Deep pond'ring—in a reverie On some dubious thingummarie. 1824Casket June 76 I'd a lot of cousins, that ‘com'd all the way down from Varmount to larn the fashions, and to hear and see all the cute and curious thingumajigs of the Old Colony’. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 58 That clever fellow, ‘Thing-a-merry’, or that stupid dog, ‘What-d'ye-call-um’. 1876‘L. Carroll’ Hunting of Snark i. ix, He would answer..To ‘What-you-may-call-um?’ or ‘What-was-his-name!’ But especially ‘Thingum-a-jig!’ 1889Century Mag. Apr. 913/1 He got ther critter propped up an' ther thingermajig stropped on ter 'im. 1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 149, I would drive through Hyde Park in a victoria,..and everybody would say, ‘There goes the editress of the Thingymygig Magazine!’ |