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something or another

something or another is the alternative form of something or other.

Meaning of something or other

Noun

something or other (uncountable)

  1. Something unspecified or indeterminate, or whose name is forgotten or immaterial.
    • The advert was on about something or other having to do with skin care, and looking your best, and emptying your wallet into their company's coffers, and so on.

Questions about something or another

What is something or another the alternative form of?
Something or another is the alternative form of something or other.

Words near something or another in the dictionary

  1. something is rotten in the state of Denmark
  2. something is up
  3. something like
  4. something like that
  5. something nasty in the woodshed
  6. something or another
  7. something or other
  8. something or the other
  9. something something
  10. something somethings
  11. something tells one

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Adapted from Wiktionary: something or another (page history and authors); something or other (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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