adj
Meaning 1
Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
thingy
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
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈθɪŋiː/
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General-American: /ˈθɪŋi/
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rhymes with -ɪŋi
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CMU ARPABET: TH IH1 NG IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish, euphemistic, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, job, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 4
A person whose name one cannot recall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- He reminds me of thingy from that film.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 5
Alternative letter-case form of thingy (“a person whose name one cannot recall”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
Examples
- He reminds me of Thingy from that film.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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).
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-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English thingy From thing + -y (diminutive suffix).
Across languages
Translations
93 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: şey — a thing
- Azerbaijani: zad — a thing
- Azerbaijani: adı bilinməz — a thing
- Basque: zera — a thing
- Bulgarian: как се казваше (kak se kazvaše) — a thing
- Bulgarian: такова (takova) — a thing
- Catalan: daixonses — a thing
- Catalan: fòtil — a thing
- Cebuano: kuwan — a thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 什麽玩意 /什么玩意 (shénme wányì) — a thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 玩意 (wányì) — a thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 什麼玩意的 /什么玩意的 (shénme wányì de) — a thing
- Danish: dims — a thing
- Danish: tingest — a thing
- Danish: dippedut — a thing
- Danish: himstregims — a thing
- Dutch: dinges — a thing
- Esperanto: umo — a thing
- Finnish: juttu — a thing
- Finnish: kapine — a thing
- Finnish: vekotin — a thing
- French: bidule — a thing
- French: machin — a thing
- French: truc — a thing
- French: chose — a thing
- Galician: conto — a thing
- Galician: couso — a thing
- Galician: aquel — a thing
- Galician: aqueloutro — a thing
- Galician: aquela — a thing
- Georgian: რაღაცა (raɣaca) — a thing
- German: Dings — a thing
- German: Dingsbums — a thing
- German: Dingsda — a thing
- German: Etwas — a thing
- Greek: μαραφέτι (maraféti) — a thing
- Greek: μαντζαφλάρι (mantzaflári) — a thing
- Ancient Greek: σκινδαψός (skindapsós) — a thing
- Hungarian: izé — a thing
- Hungarian: micsoda — a thing
- Hungarian: hogyishívják — a thing
- Icelandic: dót — a thing
- Italian: coso — a thing
- Italian: qualcosa — a thing
- Italian: robo — a thing
- Japanese: あれ (are) — a thing
- Japanese: やつ (yatsu) — a thing
- Māori: mea — a thing
- Navajo: ńléí — a thing
- Navajo: eidí — a thing
- Navajo: eii — a thing
- Norwegian: duppeditt — a thing
- Norwegian: dippedutt — a thing
- Norwegian Bokmål: dingsbums — a thing
- Persian: چیز — a thing
- Polish: wihajster — a thing
- Polish: ustrojstwo — a thing
- Polish: śmeges — a thing
- Polish: tenteges — a thing
- Polish: dzyndzel — a thing
- Polish: dynks — a thing
- Polish: pierdzielnik — a thing
- Polish: gżdynks — a thing
- Polish: pipsztyk — a thing
- Portuguese: treco — a thing
- Portuguese: negócio — a thing
- Portuguese: bagaça — a thing
- Portuguese: coisa — a thing
- Portuguese: troço — a thing
- Portuguese: bagulho — a thing
- Portuguese: cena — a thing
- Romanian: chestie — a thing
- Russian: шту́ка (štúka) — a thing
- Russian: шту́чка (štúčka) — a thing
- Russian: штуко́вина (štukóvina) — a thing
- Spanish: chisme — a thing
- Spanish: chirimbolo — a thing
- Spanish: coso — a thing
- Spanish: chunche — a thing
- Spanish: perol — a thing
- Spanish: caroto — a thing
- Swedish: grej — a thing
- Swedish: pryl — a thing
- Swedish: manick — a thing
- Swedish: tingest — a thing
- Tamil: இது (itu) — a thing
- Ukrainian: цей (cej) — a thing
- Ukrainian: цейво́ (cejvó) — a thing
- Ukrainian: той (toj) — a thing
- Ukrainian: тойво (tojvo) — a thing
- Ukrainian: як його (jak joho) — a thing
- Ukrainian: штука (štuka) — a thing
- Vietnamese: gì đó — a thing