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so-and-so

so-and-so noun: a placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic person or thing.

Noun

so-and-so (plural so-and-sos)

  1. 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".
  2. (derogatory, euphemistic) Used in place of epithets such as SOB, bastard, etc.
    • That miserable so-and-so messed up my work!
    • “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?”2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

so-and-so meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

so-and-so in Hindi

so-and-so
फ़लाना falānā

so-and-so in Tamil

இன்ன ஆள்

so-and-so in Urdu

so-and-so
فلاں fulā̃

so-and-so in Bengali

placeholder name
ফলনা fôlôna, ফলনি fôlôni, অমুক omuk
anything generic
অমুক omuk
More languagesFewer languages
so-and-so in Arabic
فُلَان fulān, فُلَانَة fulāna, كَذَا وَكَذَا kaḏā wakaḏā, كَذَا kaḏā
so-and-so in Indonesian
si anu, si fulan
so-and-so in Persian
فلان folân, بهمان bahmân, باستار bâstâr

Forms of so-and-so

pluralso-and-sos
alternative formso and so

Questions about so-and-so

What does so-and-so mean?
So-and-so means a placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic person or thing.
What is so-and-so in Hindi?
So-and-so in Hindi is फ़लाना (falānā). See So-and-so meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is so-and-so?
So-and-so is a noun.
What is the plural of so-and-so?
The plural of so-and-so is so-and-sos.

Words near so-and-so in the dictionary

  1. so true, bestie
  2. so way
  3. so what
  4. so's
  5. So'ton
  6. so-and-so
  7. so-and-sos
  8. So-cal
  9. so-called
  10. so-called dollar
  11. so-called dollars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: so-and-so (page history and authors); फ़लाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); so-and-so (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); فلاں (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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