as in whatsit
a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember
it seems to be missing some little dingus that holds everything in place
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Recent Examples of dingus
Don’t let some emotionally immature dingus shake you.
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Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Trent is every bit the dingus Cole described him as, but still makes two modestly worthwhile contributions to the entire affair.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The turn that even the most regal of short kings would be promptly discarded for any dingus who looks like Jacob Elordi is the episode’s most successful use of the actor’s appearance as a plot point.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024
Almost all are some form of dingus.
—Dan Carson, Chron, 16 Apr. 2021
Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Trent is every bit the dingus Cole described him as, but still makes two modestly worthwhile contributions to the entire affair.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The turn that even the most regal of short kings would be promptly discarded for any dingus who looks like Jacob Elordi is the episode’s most successful use of the actor’s appearance as a plot point.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024
Almost all are some form of dingus.
—Dan Carson, Chron, 16 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dingus
Noun
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Back then, the song was a fast, visionary whatsit, all pulsing, pipe-like synths and simple, buzzing one-bit melodies.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2024
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The villain this time around isn’t a person but an all-powerful artificial-intelligence whatsit known as the Entity, which fools a super-advanced Russian submarine into destroying itself in the film’s clever pre-credits sequence.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
5 July 2023
Noun
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Lenovo’s claim appears to be that the Legion 9i can fully cool itself with this method, no thingamajig needed.—
Monica Chin,
The Verge,
1 Sep. 2023
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Shot in 2021, the film apparently featured a crew of Ukrainian gangsters as the henchmen of Hugh Grant’s billionaire arms dealer antagonist, Greg Simmonds (who is brokering the thingamajig deal).—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2023
Noun
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This small doohickey works with Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery, an exclusive Prime member benefit that protects your packages from porch pirates and increment weather.—
Marc Saltzman,
USA TODAY,
17 Dec. 2024
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These days, though KitchenAid sells all kinds of other doohickeys, the stand mixer is still what the company is known for.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2024
Noun
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In fact, one of my abiding pleasures in life is finding small but transformative thingamabobs—frivolous and not at all necessary items that don’t cost much but can make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2024
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Want to make a new crypto, or a new crypto thingamabob?—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes,
26 Sep. 2024
Noun
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In other words, don't bother asking how to get rid of a hickey fast.—
Lindsey Ellefson,
Glamour,
28 Dec. 2024
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The final piece of the puzzle snaps into place as the gang attends a party thrown by Mac’s friend and former producer Roya (Haven Burton), who happens to own the monkey that gave Mac that embarrassing small-mouth hickey.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Neighbor-bully-jerkface Trey takes the bolt cutters to the tunnel’s electrical whatchamacallits, which causes a minor explosion and opens up that wicked grate that got Matty in ’94.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
11 Jan. 2025
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Also: how in the name of Philadelphia Flyers hockey legend Bobby Clarke did this show get Gritty, the giant orange whatchamacallit who is the Flyers mascot, as its opening night guest star?—
Gene Seymour,
CNN,
22 Sep. 2022
Noun
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Even with the rain and associated road noise (splashing and whatnot), the cabin of the Q6 E-Tron was a serene space.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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Is that going to involve local law enforcement giving up, the undocumented grandmother who’s cleaning houses or whatnot, there’s nothing to suggest that, that there’s any law, state law that will allow local law enforcement to do that.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The bottom line: What might have been a sleepy pre-Christmas weekend in Austin will instead see thousands of fans descend on the city, picking up hotel rooms, renting cars, buying doodads on South Congress and eating out (and tipping servers) at restaurants.—
Asher Price,
Axios,
20 Dec. 2024
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Sprinkled among the tens of thousands of holiday doodads are pieces of family history that Brown holds dearer to his heart than any of the Christmas adornments that have a high monetary value.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
12 Dec. 2024
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“Dingus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dingus. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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