I think I use a different word every time. I think that I usually say "deal". Thinking about it is making me wonder what word I do use. I know I use "do-hicky" a lot.

Thing-a-ma-gig.

Whatchamacallit

Do-dad.

I usually go through the "list", when I am trying hard to think of the object's name. "Thingamajig, whosie-whats-it, you know 'the thing'" is typically my final answer. And my son will go all Princess Bride on me and say, do you want me to move that thing and that other thing!?

Thing, doodad

dohickey, thingamabob.

I say thing-o.

All of the above!

who's it

the thing

whatchamacallit

what's it

gizmo

doodad

Whoseywhatsit

doomaflatchie (sp)

thingy

doo-hickey

stupid little thing

piece of cr*p

Thingy !!

Thingy, thing a ma jig. I do not allow my students to write the word thing. What is a thing?

Thingy or what's it

Thing. You know...the thing! The thing with the it in the place?

It's a running joke in my family so now we all say, "the thing with the it in the place"

Dingleberry, although I use the word more often to refer to a person whose name I can’t remember.

Do-hinkey, do-dad, thing, and brother's favorite, veebelfitzer.

Thingamabob.

That "thing" that...followed by a description. In our household, doohickies are the dribbled batter, thin crispier edgings that sometimes form on hotcakes or waffles. If you overhear "Can I snitch you doohickies?", don't become alarmed. ;D

whatchamacallit
you know what's the word

DD ( a normally bright child really LOL) once confided in me that she was in high school before she learned that whatchmacallit wasn't a type of breakfast sausage. Seems that when she stayed at my parents for over nighters as a little girl my dad once asked her if she would like some whatchmacallit when preparing her breakfast. It stuck in her mind for years that it was the pork links he'd fried up for breakfast.

Thingamajig, doo-funny, goo-shopper (coined by one of my sons when he was about 5 YO), whatajiggy, most often use doomaflatchie.

Rusty

I think I just say *thing* *that thing* Oh you know that thing.

LOL@Watchmelol's watchmacallit.

Well whatever you may call it... trust me it is not funny when DMIL (over 90 and fascinated with phone technologies) asked her 60 something nephew to take that little 'thingie" out of his pocket.

They were having breakfast at the local diner and he often used his phone to look up info for her.

I just say thing.

when living in northern Ohio, I heard gizmo, or thigamajig most of the time.

Here in central Ohio, it's usually contraption.

Neighbor uses suchy ( sutchie? ) I use thing-a-ding, thing -a -bob, what's-it

Scott I thought thing means an object of some sort or an action ( that thing we do )

Isn't it also an idea ( the thing in mind ) so isn't a thing something independent of anything else but not yet described and not a person or animal or that which is living?

The words something and nothing and anything are widely used. Shakespeare used it in Hamlet ( the play's the thing )

Thing's been with us a long time.

Thingy

Thing-a-ma-bob

Klutch tool

Finger bruiser

Discombabulator

I just say thing. For some reason "thingy" annoys me

Whatsit or thingy.

either thingie or thingamabob. Sometimes thingamajig

whatsajigger