Whatchamacallit & thingamajigger 兩個詞的用法

今天晚上教大家兩個詞：用法， 就是想不起某樣東西叫什麽的時候可以用得上的。就如我們平時叫某人拿某樣東西一下子忘記了那東西叫什麽，你就會，啊，那個啥，那個啥。。。它們意思相同，可以互換的： Whatchamacallit
	A word used when the actual name of the object in question will not come to mind. Very versatile but often very vague. It is derived from the phrase "what-you-may-call-it" which can be found in T. H. White's The Once and Future King. Claire- "Hey, Adam, hand me the- the- you know, the whatchamacallit." Adam- "The what?"

 

	thingamajigger
	A word that can take the place of any one noun. While working on his hot ride, John Doe reaches for his screw driver but can't reach it. He says to Tony "Eh Tony, hand me the uh.... thingamajigger" Tony-"oh, you mean the screwdriver?" "Yeah, that's it" So I ran over a thingamajigger on the way home from work. It's hair got caught all up in my tires. Sick.

 

好，本宮要擺架回宮洗澡休息了。  本宮？ 是的，今天本宮榮升為禦妹（育妹/sportwoman）。。。啊，不是"長平公主" 那個。。。哈哈。 不用送了，別盯著我看，小心我的禦林軍！

Good good study day day up! 現在應該是 night night up  吧？

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• I just got home, flipped opened my laptop and saw your post... -hammerheadshark- ♀ (641 bytes) () 03/13/2012 postreply 19:34:55

• oh I think your computer was not playing a joke on you -sportwoman- ♀ (416 bytes) () 03/13/2012 postreply 19:57:59

• I was kidding, I did learn something though -hammerheadshark- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/13/2012 postreply 20:54:32

• 學習了. -yingyudidida- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/13/2012 postreply 19:50:04

• 湊個熱鬧 Wuddaya / toleja -yingyudidida- ♂ (3096 bytes) () 03/14/2012 postreply 07:12:59

• 牛！ -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/14/2012 postreply 08:35:32

• 牛! -tingfeng- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/14/2012 postreply 10:23:07

• Thanks. Thingamajigger seems to be a new word. -EnLearner- ♂ (1199 bytes) () 03/13/2012 postreply 22:17:39

• 學習了, 謝謝! -tingfeng- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/14/2012 postreply 10:20:01