Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which they are being discussed.
Linguistic role
These placeholders typically function grammatically as nouns and can be used for people (e.g. John Doe, Jane Doe), objects (e.g. widget) or places (e.g. Anytown, USA). They share a property with pronouns, because their referents must be supplied by context; but, unlike a pronoun, they may be used with no referent—the important part of the communication is not the thing nominally referred to by the placeholder, but the context in which the placeholder occurs.
Stuart Berg Flexner and Harold Wentworth's Dictionary of American Slang (1960) use the term kadigan for placeholder words. They define "kadigan" as a synonym for thingamajig. The term may have originated with Willard R. Espy, though others, such as David Annis, also used it (or cadigans) in their writing. Its etymology is obscure—Flexner and Wentworth related it to the generic word gin for engine (as in the cotton gin). It may also relate to the IrishsurnameCadigan. Hypernyms (words for generic categories; e.g. "flower" for tulips and roses) may also be used in this function of a placeholder, but they are not considered to be kadigans.
Thingamajig sings "Rainbow" by Kacey Musgraves | THE MASKED SINGER | SEASON 2
Thingamajig sings "Rainbow" by Kacey Musgraves.
Who do you think Thingamajig is?
#TheMaskedSinger #TheMaskedSingers #ThingamajigMask #Rainbow
published: 21 Oct 2019
The Masked Singer Thingamajig: All Clues, Performances & Reveal
On The Second Season Of The Masked Singer In The USA One Of The Semi Finalists Thingamajig Has Been Revealed
published: 28 Feb 2021
Thingamajig sings "Haven't Met You Yet" by Michael Bublé | THE MASKED SINGER | SEASON 2
Thingamajig sings "Haven't Met You Yet" by Michael Bublé.
Who do you think Thingamajig is?
#TheMaskedSinger #ThingamajigMask #HaventMetYouYet
published: 10 Dec 2019
Thingamajig sings "Easy" by Commodores | THE MASKED SINGER | SEASON 2
Thingamajig sings "Easy" by Commodores.
Who do you think Thingamajig is?
#TheMaskedSinger #TheMaskedSingers #ThingamajigMask #Easy
published: 16 Oct 2019
Thingamajig all performances and reveal The Masked Singer
published: 27 Jan 2020
Masked Singer Thingamajig performance | Rainbow | Season 2 Ep 4
Masked Singer Thingamajig performance | Rainbow | Season 2 Ep 4
published: 16 Nov 2019
Thingamajig & Nicole Meet Without The Mask | Season 2 | THE MASKED SINGER
Nicole and Thingmajig meet without the mask on for the first time! And there’s even a surprise special guest who crashes their “first date.” Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelis...
published: 17 Dec 2019
Thingamajig Is Revealed As Victor Oladipo | Season 2 Ep. 11 | THE MASKED SINGER
Victor Oladipo is behind the mask! Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, "The Masked Singer" is a top-secret singing c...
published: 12 Dec 2019
Thingamajig sings "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" by The Temptations | THE MASKED SINGER | SEASON 2
Thingamajig sings "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" by The Temptations.
Who do you think Thingamajig is?
#TheMaskedSinger #ThingamajigMask #AintTooProudToBeg
Nicole and Thingmajig meet without the mask on for the first time! And there’s even a surprise special guest who crashes their “first date.” Don't miss all-new ...
Nicole and Thingmajig meet without the mask on for the first time! And there’s even a surprise special guest who crashes their “first date.” Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
Subscribe now for more The Masked Singer clips: https://fox.tv/Subscribe_TheMaskedSinger
Watch more videos from The Masked Singer: http://fox.tv/TheMaskedSingerSeason4
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, "The Masked Singer" is a top-secret singing competition in which celebrities face off against one another while shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costumes, concealing their identities. With each performance, the host, panelists, audience, viewers and even the other contestants are left guessing who the singer is behind the mask. The singers may attempt to throw off the crowd, but keen observers might pick up on tiny clues buried throughout the show. Each week, a singer is eliminated -- and then reveals his or her true identity.
Thingamajig & Nicole Meet Without The Mask | Season 2 | THE MASKED SINGER
https://www.youtube.com/c/MaskedSingerFOX
#TheMaskedSinger
Nicole and Thingmajig meet without the mask on for the first time! And there’s even a surprise special guest who crashes their “first date.” Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
Subscribe now for more The Masked Singer clips: https://fox.tv/Subscribe_TheMaskedSinger
Watch more videos from The Masked Singer: http://fox.tv/TheMaskedSingerSeason4
Catch full episodes now: https://fox.tv/maskedsingeryt
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, "The Masked Singer" is a top-secret singing competition in which celebrities face off against one another while shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costumes, concealing their identities. With each performance, the host, panelists, audience, viewers and even the other contestants are left guessing who the singer is behind the mask. The singers may attempt to throw off the crowd, but keen observers might pick up on tiny clues buried throughout the show. Each week, a singer is eliminated -- and then reveals his or her true identity.
Thingamajig & Nicole Meet Without The Mask | Season 2 | THE MASKED SINGER
https://www.youtube.com/c/MaskedSingerFOX
#TheMaskedSinger
Victor Oladipo is behind the mask! Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
Subscribe now for more The Masked Singer clips: https://fox.tv/Subscri...
Victor Oladipo is behind the mask! Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
Subscribe now for more The Masked Singer clips: https://fox.tv/Subscribe_TheMaskedSinger
Watch more videos from The Masked Singer: http://fox.tv/TheMaskedSingerSeason4
Catch full episodes now: https://fox.tv/maskedsingeryt
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, "The Masked Singer" is a top-secret singing competition in which celebrities face off against one another while shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costumes, concealing their identities. With each performance, the host, panelists, audience, viewers and even the other contestants are left guessing who the singer is behind the mask. The singers may attempt to throw off the crowd, but keen observers might pick up on tiny clues buried throughout the show. Each week, a singer is eliminated -- and then reveals his or her true identity.
#TheMaskedSinger #TheReveal
Thingamajig Is Revealed As Victor Oladipo | Season 2 Ep. 11 | THE MASKED SINGER
https://www.youtube.com/c/MaskedSingerFOX
Victor Oladipo is behind the mask! Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
Subscribe now for more The Masked Singer clips: https://fox.tv/Subscribe_TheMaskedSinger
Watch more videos from The Masked Singer: http://fox.tv/TheMaskedSingerSeason4
Catch full episodes now: https://fox.tv/maskedsingeryt
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, "The Masked Singer" is a top-secret singing competition in which celebrities face off against one another while shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costumes, concealing their identities. With each performance, the host, panelists, audience, viewers and even the other contestants are left guessing who the singer is behind the mask. The singers may attempt to throw off the crowd, but keen observers might pick up on tiny clues buried throughout the show. Each week, a singer is eliminated -- and then reveals his or her true identity.
#TheMaskedSinger #TheReveal
Thingamajig Is Revealed As Victor Oladipo | Season 2 Ep. 11 | THE MASKED SINGER
https://www.youtube.com/c/MaskedSingerFOX
Nicole and Thingmajig meet without the mask on for the first time! And there’s even a surprise special guest who crashes their “first date.” Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
Subscribe now for more The Masked Singer clips: https://fox.tv/Subscribe_TheMaskedSinger
Watch more videos from The Masked Singer: http://fox.tv/TheMaskedSingerSeason4
Catch full episodes now: https://fox.tv/maskedsingeryt
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, "The Masked Singer" is a top-secret singing competition in which celebrities face off against one another while shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costumes, concealing their identities. With each performance, the host, panelists, audience, viewers and even the other contestants are left guessing who the singer is behind the mask. The singers may attempt to throw off the crowd, but keen observers might pick up on tiny clues buried throughout the show. Each week, a singer is eliminated -- and then reveals his or her true identity.
Thingamajig & Nicole Meet Without The Mask | Season 2 | THE MASKED SINGER
https://www.youtube.com/c/MaskedSingerFOX
#TheMaskedSinger
Victor Oladipo is behind the mask! Don't miss all-new episodes every WED at 8/7c on FOX!
Subscribe now for more The Masked Singer clips: https://fox.tv/Subscribe_TheMaskedSinger
Watch more videos from The Masked Singer: http://fox.tv/TheMaskedSingerSeason4
Catch full episodes now: https://fox.tv/maskedsingeryt
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Hosted by Nick Cannon, with guest host Niecy Nash and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, "The Masked Singer" is a top-secret singing competition in which celebrities face off against one another while shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costumes, concealing their identities. With each performance, the host, panelists, audience, viewers and even the other contestants are left guessing who the singer is behind the mask. The singers may attempt to throw off the crowd, but keen observers might pick up on tiny clues buried throughout the show. Each week, a singer is eliminated -- and then reveals his or her true identity.
#TheMaskedSinger #TheReveal
Thingamajig Is Revealed As Victor Oladipo | Season 2 Ep. 11 | THE MASKED SINGER
https://www.youtube.com/c/MaskedSingerFOX
Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which they are being discussed.
Linguistic role
These placeholders typically function grammatically as nouns and can be used for people (e.g. John Doe, Jane Doe), objects (e.g. widget) or places (e.g. Anytown, USA). They share a property with pronouns, because their referents must be supplied by context; but, unlike a pronoun, they may be used with no referent—the important part of the communication is not the thing nominally referred to by the placeholder, but the context in which the placeholder occurs.
Stuart Berg Flexner and Harold Wentworth's Dictionary of American Slang (1960) use the term kadigan for placeholder words. They define "kadigan" as a synonym for thingamajig. The term may have originated with Willard R. Espy, though others, such as David Annis, also used it (or cadigans) in their writing. Its etymology is obscure—Flexner and Wentworth related it to the generic word gin for engine (as in the cotton gin). It may also relate to the IrishsurnameCadigan. Hypernyms (words for generic categories; e.g. "flower" for tulips and roses) may also be used in this function of a placeholder, but they are not considered to be kadigans.
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Over 50,000 years ago, humans started speaking and weve not shut up since. Sometimes, though, we struggle to remember the name of an object, a place, or a person we want to talk about. The technical... .
(MENAFN - The Conversation) Over 50,000 years ago , humans started speaking and we've not shut up since. Sometimes, though, we struggle to remember the name of an object, a place, or a person we ... .