Whosis

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, The Rotarian (volume 72, number 1, January 1948, 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, Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 287628, page 126:

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