Sentence examples for thingamajig from inspiring English sources
"thingamajig" is an accepted word in the English language
It is an informal word used to refer to an unspecified object or device, or to describe something that you cannot remember the name of. For example, "I don't know what this thingamajig is called, but it sure does the job!"
noun
Something that one does not know the name of.
- He used this, this... this thingamajig you saw him with the other day to fix the problem.
It lifts canal boats up to the height of an eight-storey building in two enormous caissons full of water, that are so finely balanced the whole thingamajig uses only as much electricity as boiling eight kettles of water; if, that is, you were minded to boil eight kettles of water.
Also, farewell, Fitbit sitting on top of WOWee audio thingamajig, resting on second-generation Kindle in front of an AAXA P4-X Pico Projector that I never could get to work.
I gave up around the time that we were presented with something called the Mind Stone, yet another cosmic thingamajig, and apparently one of six "infinity stones," which sound like the kind of stuff that Bilbo Baggins would hawk on QVC.
Maybe the camera could have followed the action if they had used some sort of professional robotic thingamajig, but how could they have afforded such equipment?
"That press complaining thingamajig," Murdoch called it, according to Morgan, when they spoke a few days later.
However miraculous the thingamajig turns out to be — all rumors point to some kind of tabletlike device — it can't be more remarkable than the control that Apple and Mr. Jobs have over their audience.
Most teams, like B-J, are associated with a residence hall, but anyone who likes decoding arcane clues, fetching obscure objects, and constructing hard-to-build thingamajigs is welcome to participate, and undergraduates, graduate students, and alums all join in.
I see heaps of rotting wooden furniture, glass jars with white stains all over them, and a whole lot of rusty brown, green and orange metal thingamajigs in various stages of decomposition.
(Rosenberg) Richard Tuttle: 'What's the Wind' (closes on Friday) Working quite a bit larger than usual, this Post-Minimalist master of seeming trifles presents a series of deftly cobbled-together thingamajigs that charm and challenge.
"Virtuosity is rare because the instruments are so new," said Edward Shocker, the co-founder of Thingamajigs, a Bay Area-based invented instrument education and performance organization that is co-presenting a "DIY Musical Instrument Tailgate Party" April 10 on the Stanford campus.
But Wolf didn't just get back one of those little clitoral thingamajigs that Masters and Johnson so laboriously put back on the map after Freud had brushed them aside.
