Thingummyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈθɪŋəmi/
• 韻: -ɪŋəmi

名詞

thingummy (plural thingummies)

1. Synonym of thingy: something one cannot remember the name of, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
2. Synonym of whatshisname: someone one cannot remember the name of.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 7–8:

     Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was so clever, […]
     ‘It’s memory, Cartwright, old dear. Memory, the mother of the Muses . . . at least that’s what thingummy said.’
     ‘Who?’
     ‘You know, what’s his name, Greek poet chap. Wrote the Theogony . . . what was he called? Begins with an “H”.’
     ‘Homer?’
     ‘No, dear. Not Homer, the other one. No, it’s gone. Anyway. Memory, that’s the key.’

同意語

• See Thesaurus:thingy

参照

• “thingummy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.