Machin
See also: machin
English edit
Etymology edit
From machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, from Frankish *makjo (“maker; builder; see make”). More at mason.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Machin
- A surname originating as an occupation.
Noun edit
Machin (plural Machins)
- (philately) Any of a British series of definitive stamps designed by Arnold Machin, first issued in 1967 and featuring a side view portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
See also edit
References edit
- D. G. A. Myall, The Complete Deegam Machin Handbook, Bridport (Dorset), Deegam Publications, 1993
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from machine.
Proper noun edit
Machin m (plural Machins, feminine Machine)
- (informal) what's-his-face (a general word used to designate a person whom one does not know how to name more precisely, in particular whose name has been forgotten)
- Elle se promenait avec Machin ; j’ai oublié son nom.
- She was walking with Thingy; I've forgotten his name.
- 2012, Fouad Laroui, “Né nulle part”, in L’Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine, page 41:
- Dans un café de P*, capitale de la F*, un jeune Marocain, m’ayant civilement abordé (« Vous êtes bien Machin, le gazetier ? »), m’affirme de manière véhémente que je dois entendre son histoire.
- In a café in P*, the capital of F*, a young Moroccan, having politely approached me ("Are you what's-his-face, the reporter?") insisted that I should listen to his story.