this and that
eş: dies und jenes, dieses und jenes, allerlei, mancherlei, Verschiedenes
🔊 1912, Martin Luther, Lutherbibel von 1912, 2 Kings 6:31 (with KJV translation)
female equivalent of Fulano
çekim: çoğul fulanas
thingie, thingo, thingamabob (term used to refer to something or someone whose name one cannot recall) · thing · contraption
çekim: çoğul cosi
köken: Masculine form of cosa.
разг. неизвестно кто; какой-либо человек (нарицательное имя-экземплификант, используемое в качестве обозначения неизвестной, анонимной или произвольной личности)
eş: имярек, Пушкин, Джон Доу, Пупкин
so-and-so
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭧𐭬𐭠𐭭𐭩 (ʿʾḥmʾny /wāhmān/, “so-and-so”). Compare Northern Kurdish bêhvan (“so-and-so”) and wihan (“so, like this”).
🔊 فلان و بهمان
such-and-such, so-and-so (unstated, given)
köken: From Arabic فُلَان (fulān, “so-and-so”).
🔊 Фәлән райондың фәлән ауылында тора ти.
thingamajig, whatchamacallit · whatshisname, whatshername
çekim: çoğul dingesen
eş: huppeldepup
köken: From older dings, from ding (“thing”). Compare German Dings and Dingens in the same sense.
🔊 Ik kwam gisteren dinges tegen, die ene met de snor.
what's-his-name; so-and-so (placeholder name)
çekim: çoğul beltranos
eş: beltrão
köken: From the given name Beltrano, either from Spanish or modified from Beltrão.
such-and-such, so-and-so
eş: τάδε
複数の人たちを特定せずに表す人称代名詞および疑問代名詞。だれとだれ。だれかとだれか。
N.N.; used as a substitute for an unknown name or one that the writer wishes not to reveal.
köken: Derived from Latin nōmen nesciō (“I do not know the name”).
what's-his-name
köken: Ellipsis of jak mu tam mówią.
John Doe, Joe Average, Joe Public (hypothetical average or generic individual; the common man)
so-and-so; whoever
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum tālis. Compare Old Catalan aital, Italian cotale.
excessive spelling of פְּלֹנִי
polan
çekim: çoğul fulan-fulan
John Doe (unknown or anonymous male person)
köken: Nguyễn + Văn + A (letter).
contraction of aquel + outro, literally “that [far] other; the other one by there”
çekim: çoğul aqueloutros
köken: Attested since 1807.
aile: aqueloutrar
John Doe (placeholder name of a man)
köken: Literally, “Sean O'Something”, from Seán (common Irish first name) + Ó (“descendant of; used to form surnames”) + rudaí (“things”).