whatshername

English

Etymology

what's +‎ her +‎ name

Pronoun

whatshername

1. (informal) A female person whose name cannot be recalled.

   Look, there's old whatshername peering over the fence again.

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

     ‘What document? Why, the document,’ replied Squeers. ‘The Madeline What’s-her-name one. It was a will; that’s what it was.’

See also

• whatshisname
• whatstheirname