thingy

thingamajig

Some tool, gadget, or other such implement the proper name for which is unknown or unremembered. A: "What is that thingamajig over there?" B: "That's a power coupler. Don't touch it." It looks like the signal is controlled by this joystick-looking thingamajig.

thingy

slang Some tool, gadget, or other such implement the proper name for which is unknown or unremembered. A: "What is that thingy over there?" B: "That's a power coupler. Don't touch it." It looks like the signal is controlled by this joystick-looking thingy.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

thingamajig

and thingy (ˈθɪŋəmədʒɪg and ˈθɪŋi)
n. a gadget for which the proper name has been forgotten or is unknown. Hand me that thingamajig with the copper base, will you?

thingy

verb
See thingamajig
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • thingamajig
  • thingmabob
  • thingmajig
  • thingamabob
  • gazinkus
  • gazunkus
  • doofer
  • doojigger
  • dufer
  • doohickie
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But if I were a gambling woman, I'd bet my last sugar-almond-favour thingy that Keira will still be snogging her husband in the back of the Clio long after the Ecclestone marriage has skidded into the pit lane.
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Take a remote control unit (thingy) that you know works well, and at a distance of less than a foot, point it at the Thingumajig's phototransistor.
Don't worry about this training for drivers thingy.