Whosis

English

Proper noun

Whosis

1. Placeholder for a forgotten name.
   • 1934, Inland Printer, American Lithographer, volume 93, page 55:

     Whosis has been around, and has made provisions to circumvent any wanton slaughter of his perfectly good name. Whosis has a card. The card comes in to you.

   • 1948 January, The Rotarian, volume 72, number 1, page 64:

     When the Whosis Cheese Corporation takes to the radio and dins its name into your ears 30 times in 15 minutes, it's proceeding on a sound if sometimes annoying psychological principle.

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 126:

     "You look like a guy in the movies. You know. Whosis. You know who I mean. What the heck's his name?"