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Dingsda — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • doohickey noun (informal) A thing whose exact name you don't know or can't remember.
  • hickey noun A bruise-like mark left on the skin from kissing or sucking, typically on the neck.
  • thingamabob noun An object or person whose real name you cannot remember.
  • thingamajig noun An object whose name you don't know or can't recall.
  • thingy noun An informal word for an object whose name the speaker can't recall or doesn't need to state.
  • whatchamacallit noun An informal word for an object whose name you can't remember or don't know.

Senses

Dingsda is used for these senses in English:

  • doohickey (slang, originally, US) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)
  • hickey (informal, slang) An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled. [from 1909]
  • thingamabob (slang) A thing or person whose actual name is unknown or forgotten.
  • thingamajig (informal) Something that one does not know the name of.
  • thingy (informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).
  • what's-his-name A male person or entity whose name one does not remember or want to mention but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
  • whatchamacallit (slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.

hickey — full definition

  1. noun A bruise-like mark left on the skin from kissing or sucking, typically on the neck.
  2. noun An unnamed small object or gadget whose proper name has been forgotten.
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