Synonyms for dingus
All synonyms
Noun
1. Affair — A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor
affair, gadget, gimmick, hickey, widget, doodad, doodah UK, dohickey, dojigger informal, thingumabob, dingbat, thingamajig informal, gubbins, whatchamacallit informal, thingmabob, thingmajig, whatsis, thingumajig, thingummy, thing slang, gizmo slang, jigger slang, hootenanny dated
Definitions
- n. 1
A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor.
Drill #40 the .094 [2.4 mm] holes in the dingus. Dimple the #40 holes.
Related words
- Other spellings
- dinges
Forms
- Plural
- dinguses → affairs, gadgets, gimmicks, hickeys…
Example sentences
- affair She seems to have something to do with the affair.
- gadget This is a great time-saving gadget for the housewife.
- gimmick It's a clever marketing gimmick.
- hickey Tom saw that Mary had a hickey on her neck.
By length
- 4 letters
- dink1
- 5 letters
- thing1, gizmo2
- 6 letters
- affair2, gadget2, hickey2, widget2, doofus, jigger, doodad2, doodah
- 7 letters
- gimmick2, dingbat, gubbins2, whatsis
- 8 letters
- dohickey, dojigger
- 9 letters
- thingummy
- 10 letters
- hootenanny, thingmabob, thingmajig
- 11 letters
- thingamajig, thingumabob, thingumajig
- 15 letters
- whatchamacallit
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gizmo2 = 2 syllables).