chummy

Example Sentences

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Rather like crushing a thingummy with a what-d’you-call-it. 

From Mike by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

The thing is, it will have to be neutral ground of course, only that might easily become a thingummy ...

From The Lost Kafoozalum by Ashwell, Pauline

The velvet thingummy rather than the iron what's-its-name.

From Piccadilly Jim by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

"The air from B. Suppose it is travelling in a cyclone—" "But isn't a cyclone a low-pressure thingummy?"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 by Various

This about time being only a thingummy of thought is very confusing.

From The Story of the Amulet by Nesbit, E. (Edith)