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what's-his-name colloq.|ˈhwɒtshɪzneɪm|
Also whatsisname.
Substituted for the name of a man or boy (loosely, of a thing) which the speaker forgets, does not know, or is unwilling to mention. So what's-her-name (of a woman or girl), what's-its-name (of a thing), what's-your-name (of a person addressed).
whatsename (quot. 1866) represents an ambiguous form which is not uncommon. what's-their-names (quot. 1773) is very rare.
1697Dryden Virg. Past. iii. 61 Two Figures on the sides emboss'd appear; Conon, and what's his Name who made the Sphere. 1757Foote Author i, Look ye here, Mr. What's-your-name? 1773G. A. Stevens Trip Portsm. ii. 28 The what's-their-names at uproars squall. 1816Scott Old Mort. Concl., ‘And what became of old Mrs What's her name, the housekeeper?’ ‘Mrs Wilson, madam', answered I. 1829Marryat Frank Mildmay xxiii, Mr. Thingamy, you will take the what's-his-name. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxi, Those great folks in what's-its-name Place. 1846― Cricket on Hearth i, There was soon the very What's-his-name to pay. 1848― Dombey xxi, ‘But seclusion and contemplation are my what's-his-name—’ ‘If you mean Paradise, Mamma, you had better say so, to render yourself intelligible.’ 1866Reade Griffith Gaunt xv, He..almost persuaded Whatsename, another heathen gentleman, to be a Christian. 1872Earl Pembr. & G. H. Kingsley S. Sea Bubbles i. 29 The back-sliding individual is looked upon..by the more..decent of the community as little better than one of the what's-his-names. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths i, It makes one feel like What's-her-name in the ‘Trovatore’. 1942W. Faulkner Go down, Moses 87 Is that so? Look here, Mister What's-your-name—. 1943K. Tennant Ride on Stranger x. 114 And then Bleeby..accusing me..of turning Whatsisname against him. 1979S. Wilson Glad Hand i. i. 11 Marilyn. What is going on? Brian. Same old thing: raising the whatsis-name—the Antichrist. |
