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Examples of thingamabob in a Sentence
a drawer for all the thingamabobs that have fallen or broken off various items around the house
Recent Examples on the Web
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
Want to make a new crypto, or a new crypto thingamabob?
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Fans were just as curious about the casting for Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid as Ariel is about whozits, whatzits, and thingamabobs.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Maybe that Zack Snyder sci-fi thingamabob.
—WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
Say hello to the cutest new thingamabobs: Little Mermaid ears.
—Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 2 July 2019
What about all the thingamabobs, whozits, and whatzits galore?
—Willa Bennett, Seventeen, 4 Aug. 2017
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Word History
First Known Use
1796, in the meaning defined above
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“Thingamabob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thingamabob. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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thingamabob
noun
thing·am·a·bob
ˈthiŋ-ə-mə-ˌbäb
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