# Define "thingme-dealey-bob"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 21, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984 "2004-11-21T21:17:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/1 "2004-11-21T21:17:35Z")
“thingme-dealey-bob” – care to have a go at defining it?
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/2 "2004-11-21T21:43:21Z")
You, know, one of those whosits with the whatchamajobber on it.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/3 "2004-11-21T21:43:45Z")
I’ve never heard of that one. It looks like a combination of “thingamabob” and “dealie”.
There’s also:
thingamajig
watchamacallit
doohickey
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### Author:  [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/4 "2004-11-21T21:45:49Z")
**thingme-dealey-bob** , n: gizmo
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### Author:  [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/5 "2004-11-21T21:47:13Z")
Oh, you know, it’s the thingamajig. The whatsit. The hooja. _Picks it up and waves it up and down._ THIS THING!!!
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### Author:  [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/6 "2004-11-21T21:49:07Z")
> [@Muffin](#):
>
> “thingme-dealey-bob” – care to have a go at defining it?
A precious shiny object.
Or, ‘thingamabob’:
> **[Urban Dictionary: thingamabob](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thingamabob&r=f)**
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> A Whatyamacallit.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/7 "2004-11-21T21:57:00Z")
I would argue that a gizmo is a machine of some sort, wheras a thingme-dealey-bob would be more like a whoojamaflip, or in Ireland, a “yoke”.
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### Author:  [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/8 "2004-11-21T23:17:35Z")
It’s one of those majigs, ya know, the kind that does that thing.
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### Author:  [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/9 "2004-11-21T23:23:37Z")
It’s like a spinnymajig, only it doesn’t spin and it’s shiney like a whassit but round like a dinglybob. I think.
Ask Ariel. She’ll know.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/10 "2004-11-21T23:24:41Z")
I once looked in a dictionary that defined a “thingamabob” as a “thingamajig.”
And vice versa.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/11 "2004-11-21T23:26:14Z")
Not to be confused with “doofunkus” (a person whose name you can’t remember or don’t know).
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/12 "2004-11-21T23:29:22Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#):
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> Oh, you know, it’s the thingamajig. The whatsit. The hooja. _Picks it up and waves it up and down._ THIS THING!!!
What she said.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/13 "2004-11-22T00:04:31Z")
It’s a hoodely-whatsis. You know! The thing that does the thing!
Yeah, that!
Robin
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/14 "2004-11-22T00:38:21Z")
It’s a hootermeratis for a frammis device.
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/15 "2004-11-22T00:43:51Z")
What a bunch of poseurs.
Every crafter of Southern-speak knows that a ‘Gee-Haw Whimmydiddle’ covers it.
If it isn’t that, then it’s a dingus.
Lordy-be. Whattum I gonna do with y’all? 😉
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/16 "2004-11-22T00:53:59Z")
I call mine Bob.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/17 "2004-11-22T01:34:38Z")
The thingamabob that does the job is bippity-boppity-boo.
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### Author:  [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/18 "2004-11-22T01:41:23Z")
Yep. I know exactly what all y’all are refering to.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/19 "2004-11-22T01:44:53Z")
The wossname…you know, _that_.
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/20 "2004-11-22T23:40:47Z")
It’s a hoozismacher/veeblefetzer/feeblevetzer/potrzebie.
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