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and whatnot

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and whatnot

  1. (idiomatic) And so on; et cetera
    • 1895, Howard Pyle, “Empty Bottles”, in Twilight Land:
      In the old, old days when men were wiser than they are in these times, there lived a great philosopher and magician, by name Nicholas Flamel. Not only did he know all the actual sciences, but the black arts as well, and magic, and what not.
    • 1919, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves[1], London: George Newnes:
      It beats me sometimes why a man with his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what-not.

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