Usually means: Object whose name is forgotten.
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  1. thingummy: Merriam-Webster
  2. thingummy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thingummy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. thingummy: Vocabulary.com
  5. Thingummy, thingummy: Wordnik
  6. thingummy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. thingummy: Wiktionary
  8. thingummy: Dictionary.com
  9. thingummy: Rhymezone
  10. thingummy: FreeDictionary.org
  11. thingummy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. thingummy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thingummy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thingummy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See thingummies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thingummy)

noun:  Synonym of thingy: something one cannot remember the name of, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
noun:  Synonym of whatshisname: someone one cannot remember the name of.

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