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[Thingy]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A thing [used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name] .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] A penis .
6. * [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[a thing]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Maori: [mi]
- Navajo: [nv] , [nv] , [nv]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
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- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Pronoun
[en-pron]
1. [en] [en] A person whose name one cannot recall.
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Adjective
[er]
1. Resembling or characteristic of a thing ; tangible .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1985 | author=A. S. Byatt | title=Still Life
|passage=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, [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2017 | author=Francis Spufford | title=True Stories: And Other Essays | page=128
|passage=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.}}
*** References
- [entry=thingummy]
*** Further reading
- 吴语: Placeholder name
*** Anagrams
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