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Hold My Place

A list of 121 words by reesetee.

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. . . apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind,
Such as--What d'ye call him--Thing'em-bob, and likewise--Never-mind,
and 'St--'st--'st--and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who--
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
--The Mikado

We don't do crime here....Contracts, copyright, companies floated, that's our thingie.
--J. Barnett, Firing Squad, 1981

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  • ruzuzu Me too (and me too). Jan 6, 2012

  • Wordplayer Oh, I forget about those headbands! I've heard it used as a place-holder as well though.
    Jan 6, 2012

  • reesetee No, but I have dealie, dealie-bob, dealy, dealybob, deeley, and deelie. *takes deep breath*

    I wasn't aware that dealybopper is a placeholder. I always thought it referred only to those weird glittery balls we stuck on headbands in the 1970s. ;-) Jan 4, 2012

  • Wordplayer Did you get dealybopper?
    Jan 4, 2012

  • reesetee You bet. Glad you found it. :-) Jan 4, 2012

  • nellie_nelson I'd forgotten hoojamaflip -- thanks for that!
    Jan 4, 2012

  • reesetee Yes, they're nouns. And that's about all we know about them. ;-) May 26, 2010

  • thtownse So are these nouns? Their subject or object is really not defined, kind of a quantum mechanical entity, a probability. May 25, 2010

  • strev Hokey dokey reeseteeamabob ;7) Nov 7, 2009

  • reesetee Well, strev, it's like this: First, I went to the whatchamacallit to find some good dealie-bobs. Once I found those doodads, I checked the thingamajig to make sure, and then posted them on this whatsis here.

    So now you know. Nov 6, 2009

  • strev how the sam hill did you come up with all those whosamabob names? Nov 6, 2009

  • whichbe deely-boppers, yadda yadda, fiddly bits Dec 24, 2008

  • reesetee How'd I miss that one? Thanks, which. Oct 30, 2008

  • whichbe veeblefetzer Oct 30, 2008

  • reesetee A fine addition. Thanks, Pro. Jun 26, 2008

  • Prolagus Youknowwhatimean, as in choanopitaphilia. Jun 25, 2008

  • Prolagus I think they're called passe-partout words. And I also think it's time to go to sleep... Jun 20, 2008

  • reesetee Excellent suggestion. Thanks, m. Jun 2, 2008

  • mollusque How about whangdoodle? In addition to being an imaginary beast, OED2 defines it as "Something unspecified, a 'thingummy'". Jun 2, 2008

  • dontcry RFC 3092: "Let's child do anythig for fun, if only not cry" from Russians saying by Oleg (5/31/2005) May 31, 2008

  • vanishedone Foobar as one word, sometimes; but FUBAR isn't usually just used to represent a variable.

    'Hackers do not generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense... In RFC1639, “FOOBAR�? was made an abbreviation for “FTP Operation Over Big Address Records�?, but this was an obvious backronym. It has been plausibly suggested that “foobar�? spread among early computer engineers partly because of FUBAR and partly because “foo bar�? parses in electronics techspeak as an inverted foo signal'
    catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foobar.html May 31, 2008

  • dontcry I thought it was fubar? May 31, 2008

  • vanishedone Foo without bar? How could you? (The linked RFC is from the list of April 1st RFCs, but foo and bar genuinely are in use.) May 31, 2008

  • asativum Er. What about whatsit and stuff? Or whatever. May 31, 2008

  • bilby Whatnot. May 31, 2008

  • chained_bear It also really contributed to people being kind and civilized in their comments. :) May 30, 2008

  • bilby I think the 'foo' bit of foo fighter might qualify. But I like these old lists where we have to almost beg the list owner for admittance. Makes one think very hard about the suggestions. May 30, 2008

  • reesetee It's just such a rich trove of linguistic fun, isn't it? ;-) May 7, 2007

  • trivet nice! I like the Mikado quote! May 7, 2007