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Thingy is a very casual, spoken word people use when they cannot remember or don't know the exact name of something. You say it while pointing or gesturing at the object, like 'pass me the... thingy'.
那個…（想不起名字時用的替代詞）
組成thing + -y (a casual, friendly-sounding ending).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
thingynoun詞源 1/ˈθɪŋiː/
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informalA thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
- And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.
- What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]
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slangA penis.
- He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.
thingypron詞源 1/ˈθɪŋiː/
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informalA person whose name one cannot recall.
- He reminds me of thingy from that film.
thingyadj詞源 2/ˈθɪŋiː/
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Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible.
- The most unpleasant, and also the thingiest, the central thing in Foreign Parts, was a giant banyan tree, putting out more and more suckers which created tangled arches, a swollen hiding-place of a tree, a series of organic traps, […]
- The secret of even the thingiest SF, the most solid-walnut-to-the-knuckles fantasy, is that you don't need much to summon worlds out of air, so long as the details are the right ones.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。