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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

The thingumajig that is supposed to turn it off has got broken or something and it keeps pumping water all over where I don't want it to.

From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.