“Thingy?”

Thingy - noun - a gelatinous mass of referential scalars. An anonymous arrayref of hashrefs is a thingy, for example.

Good grief, Perl is weird. Yeah, yeah, it's cool and fast and powerful, but it's weird. 'Tis the only language (I know of) in which you can actually "chomp a blessed thingy"!

Most people reading this will think I'm just being silly, I know. Except for those who know perl. And, I didn't make up "thingy." It's mentioned in perldoc three times, and is described in the Perl tutorial over at Steve's Place as, "a perl data structure composed of some gungy mass of references.")