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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: thingamajig, Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins, whatsit, doodad, whatchamacallit, doohickey, thingo, thingamabob, thingummy, whatsis, thingumajig, thingumabob, whatchacallit, Sorted alphabetically, affair, bazinga, bizzo, chingadera, dealie, dealy, dinglehopper, dingus, dohickey, dojigger, dongle, doo-hickey, doober, doodah, doofer, doohickus, doohinkey, doohinkus, doojigger, doovalacky, foobar, foo, frammis, frobnitz, gadget, geegaw, gewgaw, gingambob, gingumbob, hodad, hootenanny, jawn, jimbang, jobber, jobby, joint, junk, kajigger, kludge, MacGuffin, oojamaflip, rigamajig, shebang, stuff, thingabob, thingamabobber, thingamafuck, thingamajigger, thingamajiggy, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingmy, thingummabob, thingummajig, thingummyjig, thingum, thingymabob, thingymajig, thing, ting, whachacallit, whachamacallit, whaddayacallit, whatchamahoozie, whatdyecallem, whatdoyoucallit, whatnot, whatsaname, whatsitsname, whiff-whaff, whosiewhatsit, whosit, wossisname, wossname, wotsit, yoke, yokibus
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unknown; potentially Scottish. Use is tied to the Appalachian culture in the US.
