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something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known

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Students and teachers stand side-by-side to fend off Death Eaters, Dementors and other evil thingummies.

WANDerful; Your movies

Podsnap, a wealthy marine insurance businessman, works by mixing with "influential people" (247); Lady Tippins "really does work" by calling upon everyone she knows, requesting votes for Pocket-Breaches in order that Veneering can be "brought in by the spontaneous thingummies of the incorruptible whatdoyoucallums" (248, 249).

The private servant, the public servant, and the "good and faithful servant" in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend

Beneath the thingummies of what-d'you-call-it his head, wind and weather permitting, is as a rule bloody but unbowed, and if the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune want to crush his proud spirit, they have to pull their socks up and make a special effort.

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