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A reader called Sonia, who clearly reads too many fashion articles, wanted to know if anyone really knows what wassername will be wearing when she marries thingumajig.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2011

Here too, the need is for something that expresses warmth but nothing so intense as to be thought presumptuous�perhaps the silver thingumajig of indeterminate value but clearly stamped "Tiffany."

From Time Magazine Archive

So the Ohioan pushed a thingumajig on the battery and a BB-size red light lit up.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed to be just the place to house Electra's collection of dolls, dollhouses � and, in fact, of every last thingumajig and whatchamacallit ever made in early America.

From Time Magazine Archive

“He was rigged out to climb a pole and had a telephone thingumajig with him,” suggested the boss.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman