| 单词 | mr thingum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMr Thingum 2. colloquial. = thingummy n. In early use (with reference to a person) also Mr Thingum (cf. thing n.1 16a). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown swilk and swilkc1175 thinga1325 what-call-ye-him1473 who knows what?1548 I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568 God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569 washical1575 what-d'ye-call-'em1593 so-and-so1596 whiblin1604 so-fortha1616 jiggumboba1625 know-not-whata1642 thingum1652 thingum-thangum1684 what's-his-name1697 something or other1706 thingummy1737 thingamabob1751 something1764 what's-her-name1816 conundrum1817 thingamerry1819 thingamajig1824 somebody1825 what's-its-name1839 whangdoodle1852 thingummytite1865 dingus1866 what-not1876 whatsita1882 gilguy1883 gadget1886 dingbat1894 doohickey1914 oojah1917 oojah capivvy1917 oojiboo1918 doodad1920 tiddlypush1923 whosis1923 thingy1927 doodah1928 doofer1937 hootenanny1940 whatchamacallit1942 gizmo1943 frammis1948 whosit1948 whifflow1961 oobyjiver1963 whatsisface1967 oojamaflip1970 what's-her-face1980 1652 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 4. 26 Alas poor sottish thingum! in reverence to thy memory, I lay my hand upon my lipps. 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 6 Dec. 2/1 Is there no news from the Thingum in the Old-Baily? 1721 J. Mottley Antiochus p. xiv Hang me, if one single Word I know: Dear, Mr. Thingum, will you prompt me? 1793 Fitzgerald in European Mag. 23 387 All your bunch of thingums. 1808 M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 11 What were you saying, Mr. Thing'em? 1875 M. H. Catherwood Woman in Armour xviii. 140 But, Launt, dear, it isn't a geological paper for that scientific publication, is it? I don't want to hear about ichthyo-thingums, etc., to-night. 1878 J. Hartley Halifax Clock Almanack 19 Ther wor a long thingum 'at aw tuck to be a piece o' stooav pipe. 1901 G. Ade in Sunday State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 27 Jan. 9/7 I suppose you have your Beeswax, Sticking Plaster,..your Borax and the Patent Thingum for tightening up the Clothes Line. 1988 Boston Globe (Nexis) 1 Nov. 29 Beware the hanging chad, the not-quite-punched-out thingum that will cause the scanning machine to either ignore your entire ballot, or misread it. 2000 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 1 Nov. d1 The subordinate clauses, the participial phrases, the one or two or five linguistic thingums that tell a reader everything the main clause, by itself, can't. < as lemmas |
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