Citations:thingmy

Adjective: "(informal, chiefly Scotland) agitated, flustered, in a lather"

 * 1996 — Ann Laybourn, Jane Brown, & Malcolm Hill, Hurting on the Inside: Children's Experiences of Parental Alcohol Abuse, Avebury (1996), ISBN 9781859723197, page 54:
 * I was thingmy myself, right enough and he kept shouting that he was going to kill me and put me in a box, a blood bath and all this.
 * 2005 — Qualitative Research in Health Care (ed. Immy Holloway), Open University Press (2005), ISBN 9780335212941, page 68:
 * If a guy is going to get thingmy when he sees a women pull her breast out then he is not much a guy is he.
 * 2011 — Alison Irivine, The Road Is Red, Luath Press (2011), ISBN 9781906817817, page 264:
 * "We don't expect to run out but she's just really hungry, you know, and my girlfriend's thingmy, she's a bit down in the dumps so I don't want to leave her, you know."

Noun: "(informal, chiefly Scotland) thing"

 * 1991 — Ian MacDougall, Voices from the Hunger Marches: Personal Reflections by Scottish Hunger Marchers of the 1920s and 1930s, Polygon (1991), ISBN 9780748660261, page 156:
 * Phil, he was a brilliant wee thingmy, but they were in the rooms, ye see.
 * 1992 — Margaret Bennett, Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave, Polygon (1992), ISBN 9780748661183, page 69:
 * they came right round the crown but the girls' wis the hood shape, you know the bonnet shape wi the thingmy, you know, an the veil;
 * 2000 — Susie Maguire, The Short Hello, Polygon (2000), ISBN 9780748662715:
 * It was a huge, massive great place, with loads of people dragging lights around, and tiers of seating, and a big blonde woman wearing earmuff thingmies,
 * 2001 — Ian MacDougall, Voices of Leith Dockers: Personal Recollections of Working Lives, Mercat (2001), ISBN 9781841830322:
 * Then toilets, durin' the war they still had the dry bluidy thingmies, ah'm sure it wis — dry closets.
 * 2006 — Scott Creighton, Something Went Bump, White Saltire Press (2006), ISBN 9781411629974, page 30:
 * 'Right boys, best of order here! We're gonnae for to have for oorselves th'day a wee vote thingmy.
 * 2012 — David Russell, Last Dance, Durdurn Press (2012), ISBN 9781926607283, page 379:
 * They were able to trace the exact IP address of the computer that sent the text message using some sort of encrypto-static-demobilizer thingmy.
 * 2017 — JOHN DONOGHUE, fit the hingmy to the hingmy and let the hingmy set before moving the hingmy