Re: [FWP] another word for object?

[Andy Bach <root@wiwb.uscourts.gov>]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Keith Calvert Ivey wrote:

> Ulf Rompe <ulf@rompe.org> wrote:
> 
> > What about "Dings" or even "Dingens", which could be
> > translated to "thingy". 
> Dingus, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit.

Bebob, dohickey, aliquam (?), in Tagalog, or, better, in the Philippines, 
"kwan" is the word akin to 'ding', you (or a less articulate version of 
you) could say "I kwaned the kwan w/ a kwan but it kwaned" (pointing 
perhaps at a car w/ the hood up and an oil puddle spreading slowly across 
the garage floor) and possibly be understood. See also pootpoot.com

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