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#164761 01/02/07 07:16 PM
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My mother always called a thingamjig a dinglehoofer.

#164762 01/02/07 07:25 PM
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I love it


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#164763 01/06/07 10:38 PM
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I like the general-purpose substitute term my mother-in-law used:

dooflop

I've never heard it anywhere else. I wonder if it is of her own invention?

#164764 01/06/07 11:08 PM
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Dooflop sounds like something that a cow or horse might have left behind.

#164765 01/06/07 11:16 PM
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I've heard, "That doofloppy". (doofloppie?)

#164766 01/06/07 11:32 PM
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Quote:

I like the general-purpose substitute term my mother-in-law used:

dooflop

I've never heard it anywhere else. I wonder if it is of her own invention?



I found it in a list of American Indefinite Names, compiled by Louise Pound, which includes the following doo-words:

doobob
doobobble
doobobbus
doobiddie
doobinnie
doodad
doodaddle
doodaddy
doodibbie
doodiddie
doodingle
doodinkus
doodle
doodlefadgit
dooflicker
dooflickus
dooflinkie
dooflinkus
dooflop
doofloppie (hi Jackie)
doofloppus
doofunny
doogadget
dooginkus
doogood
doohickie
doohinkie
doohinkus
doojiebob
doojigger
doojiggus
doojinnie
doojumfunny
doololly
doomiejig
doomAWADja
doomiewadjie
doosenwhacker
doowhacker
doowhackie
doowhopper

(you try spellchecking this stuff!)

#164767 01/07/07 12:32 AM
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my first reaction to thingamajig was this song..
(only i couldn't remember enough of it to find it..
dundee weavers
(its a bit baudy, but pg14 or so rated)

#164768 01/07/07 12:54 AM
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Reminds me of my late cousing Dierdre, often called Dee, who went swimming in the wrong river in northern Australia. Crocodile Done Dee.

edit: my typing is as bad as my proofing.

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My mom always used to say, "That little doobiddie-business!", referring, for ex., to the dog that had climbed up onto the sofa and helped itself to the popcorn she'd left there.

#164770 01/08/07 02:00 AM
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Wow! Look at them all. And yet, I've never heard any of them in use except dooflop, and that by only one person.

Thanks, tsuwm.

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