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Re: [FWP] another word for object?

To: fwp@technofile.org
Subject: Re: [FWP] another word for object?
From: "Keith Calvert Ivey" <kcivey@cpcug.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:22:32 -0400
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References: "B. K. Oxley's message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:21:56 -0500"

Ulf Rompe <ulf@rompe.org> wrote:

> What about "Dings" or even "Dingens", which could be
> translated to "thingy". In Germany one can say "Dings" to
> everything of which one is not shure what ist is. If you only
> forgot it's name you may call it "Dingsbums". Maybe one can
> tranlate that as "foobar".

Dingus, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit.

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>
Washington, DC

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