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  2. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    A universal placeholder name for a man is Jan Kowalski (kowal meaning "(black)smith"); for a woman, Anna Kowalska. A second unspecified person would be called Nowak ("Newman"), with the choice of first name being left to the author's imagination, often also Jan for a man; this surname is unisex.

  3. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...

  4. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    Ivanov, being derived from the most common first name, is a placeholder for an arbitrary person. In its plural form, "Ivanovs", it may be used as a placeholder for a group of people. [ 59 ] There is a military joke: The sergeant asks the rookies: "Your surnames!"

  5. Grammar Guy: Placeholder names for every Tom, Dick and Harry

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  6. Category:Placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Placeholder names" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. ... This page was last edited on 31 October 2019, at 10:33 (UTC).

  7. John Doe - Wikipedia

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    Other fictitious names for a person involved in litigation in medieval English law were "John Noakes" (or "Nokes") and "John-a-Stiles" (or "John Stiles"). [10] The Oxford English Dictionary states that John Doe is "the name given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff, in the (now obsolete in the UK) mixed action of ejectment , the ...

  8. 10 body parts you didn't know had names - AOL

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    How many of these did you know? Tell us in the comments below! The canthus is where the upper and lower eyelids meet. The rasceta are the lines on the inside of your wrist. The purlicue is the ...

  9. Talk:List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Mentioning that "Teil" has acquired a specific meaning in certain contexts seems rather vague/useless. I guess the specific meaning that is hinted at here is "ein Teil" for "a pill of exctasy", which would tie in nicely with "Zeuch" being a generic placeholder name for any kind of drug. Pulverzicke 16:39, 7 April 2020 (UTC)