Do you have a better name for thing-umee-bobs? Round here, you can’t move for Yokie-buzzers, and I keep tripping over Latch-icko’s. How about you?
“Where’s that little… guacamole I had here?”
They’re either thing-doodles or doo-hickeys, depending.
A thingy
Yep, they’re thingies.
You know…the thing…with the stuff.
Dealies, usually.
Doo-dads
I call it…you know…that thinger…
Thing or Thingy, depending.
doo-muh-flah-gee-what-juh-muh-jigs
we call them “Patentes a gosses”
It’s… um, ah, that whoositz over there. Yeah, that, uh, thingamabobber dealie.
Honeydewgrrl breaks into an early lead.
who-zee-doo-zees?
goomers
left-hand framitz
hoopajoos
chingaladeras (or just chinga for short)
or
the whatsit, you know, with all that jazz on it
Ahh, you just reminded me of my husband’s whatcha-word:
Hoopajoopas. When really confounded, it becomes hoopajoopadeedoo.
The. . . the thingie. Da kine. The fecking feck feck. The widget.
The thingy. The doo-hinky. The hootenanny. Or, if you’re my grandmother, the sonofabitch.