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Pronoun
what's-his-name
- A male person or entity whose name one does not remember or want to mention but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
1842, Robert Browning, Waring:I left his arm that night myself / For what's-his-name's, the new prose-poet / Who wrote the book there, on the shelf
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A person or entity whose name one does not remember
- Arabic: مَا اِسْمَهُ m (mā ismahu)
- Dutch: jeweetwel, dinges (nl)
- French: Machin (fr) m (see machin (fr)), comment-qu’il-s’appelle m, c’est-quoi-son-nom m or f, trucmuche (fr) m or f, Tartempion (fr), Untel (fr) m
- German: Dingsda (de) m or f
- Hebrew: פלוני אלמוני (he)
- Italian: Coso (it) m
- Maori: mea
- Portuguese: fulano (pt) m
- Russian: ка́к его́ m (kák jevó), э́тот са́мый m (étot sámyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: (since it can refer to anything of any sex, it is one of the most common Serbo-Croatian buzzwords, some people using it in every other sentence) kak-se-zove
- Spanish: fulano (es) m, zutano (es) m, mengano (es) m
- Yiddish: האָצמאַך m (hotsmakh), יענער פּלוני m (yener ployne)
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