thingamabob

Other forms of thingamabob

plural

thingamabobs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thingamabob

What does thingamabob mean?

thingamabob means "something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known".

How many syllables are in thingamabob?

thingamabob has 4 syllables: thin-ga-ma-bob. The stress falls on "thin". In IPA it is /ˈθɪŋəməˌbɑb/.

What is another word for thingamabob?

Close synonyms include doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thingamabob a common word?

thingamabob is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with thingamabob?

2 words rhyme with thingamabob. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.