# 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:** 6
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### Author: ![Grit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Grit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grit)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/21 "2004-11-22T23:43:51Z")

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> [@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!!!

You know!! For the kids!

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### Author: ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/22 "2004-11-23T00:38:48Z")

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> [@rowrrbazzle](#):
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> It’s a hoozismacher/veeblefetzer/feeblevetzer/potrzebie.

Ah fin Ah ust hrained ahi ounge rying oo ay at.

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### Author: ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/23 "2004-11-23T01:19:13Z")

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> [@Muffin](#):
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> Ah fin Ah ust hrained ahi ounge rying oo ay at.

Exactly. 🙂

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### Author: ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/24 "2004-11-23T15:16:01Z")

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D’ye mean the oojah-cum-pivvy?

Or that wonderful English phrase, “the doings,” as in, “hand me the doings, Lord Chomondley…”

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### Author: ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/25 "2004-11-23T20:04:24Z")

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Sheesh.

A thingme-dealey-bob is \*obviously \* a whatchamacallit that you simply cannot remember the whosiewhatsit for. I have a whole thingamajig full of thingme-dealey-bobs, but I keep holding onto them because one day, ONE day, I will remember the whosiewhatsit for it. And I’ll write it down in that doohickey (even though the little doodad is broken.)

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### Author: ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-thingme-dealey-bob/275984/26 "2004-11-23T20:14:46Z")

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> [@Antigen](#):
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> The thingamabob that does the job is bippity-boppity-boo.

You! You snuck in a Disney quote! I’m gonna tell!

Oh and a thingme-dealy-bob is a dingle whumpus. You know, a Thingamadoodle.

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