so -and -so (plural so-and-sos )
A placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic person or thing.
She told me to ask so-and-so , but he didn't know, either.
Business letters normally begin "Dear Mr So-and-So ".
He will tell you to do so-and-so , but read the instructions first, anyway.
( euphemistic , derogatory ) Used in place of epithets such as SOB , bastard , etc.
That miserable so-and-so messed up my work!
2017 , David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad , London: HarperCollins Children’s Books , →ISBN :“How can five hundred pounds become a hundred thousand pounds?!” “I’m not a bank,” snapped Mr Big. “No, you just rob them!” said Frank. “Cocky little so-and-so , aren’t you?”
placeholder name
Arabic: فُلَان (ar) m ( fulān ) , فُلَانَة f ( fulāna )
Moroccan Arabic: فلان m ( flān ) , فلانة f ( flāna )
Azerbaijani: filan , nəmnə ( dialect, colluqial ) , bəhman
Bashkir: фәлән ( fələn ) , фәлән-төгән ( fələn-tögən )
Bengali: ফলনা m ( fôlôna ) , ফলনি f ( fôlôni ) , অমুক (bn) ( omuk )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 某某 (zh) ( mǒumǒu )
Czech: ten a ten m , ta a ta f , to a to n
Egyptian: (mn m ), (mnt f )
Finnish: se ja se (fi)
French: ( person ) : Untel (fr) , Machin (fr) , Trucmuche (fr) , Tartempion (fr) ; ( thing ) : chose (fr) , machin (fr)
Galician: aqueloutro m , fulán m
German: der und der m , die und die f , das und das n
Greek: τάδε (el) m or f or n ( táde )
Ancient Greek: δεῖνα m or f or n ( deîna )
Japanese: 何々 ( なになに, naninani )
Kapampangan: nanu-nanu , kayi
Korean: 뭐뭐 ( mwomwo ) , 아무개 (ko) ( amugae ) , 무엇무엇 ( mueonmueot ) , 무슨무슨 ( museunmuseun )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: فِڵان (ckb) ( fillan ) , فیسار ( fîsar )
Maltese: flien m , fliena f
Maori: mea , kai a te kurī ( Rather derogatory expression )
Persian: فلان (fa) ( folân ) , بهمان (fa) ( bahmân )
Portuguese: fulano (pt) m , sicrano (pt) m , beltrano (pt) m
Romanian: cutare , Cutărescu , X-ulescu m , X-uleasca f
Russian: то́-то и то́-то n ( tó-to i tó-to ) , и то и сё n ( i to i sjo )
Spanish: fulano (es) m , fulana (es) f
Turkish: falan (tr) , filan (tr) , falan filan (tr)
Turkmen: nämenäme , pylan
Walloon: Tibî Meyî (wa) , Chôze
name used to take the place of an epithet