what-notwhatnotn.

/ˈhwɒtnɒt/

Etymology: Properly an elliptical interrogative phrase (see quot. 1540 at sense 1a below, and compare what pron., adj.¹, and adv. 5a).

a. Usually and preferably as two words

/ˈhwɒtˈnɒt/: Anything whatever; everything; ‘anything and everything’; ‘all sorts of things’: mostly, now only, as final item of an enumeration: = anything else, various things besides; ‘whatever you like to call it’. (Also occasionally of persons.)

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > anything

whateOE

aughtOE

anywhata1400

what-not1540

anything1607

the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown

swilk and swilkc1175

thinga1325

what-call-ye-him1473

who knows what?1548

I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568

God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569

washical1575

what-d'ye-call-'em1593

so-and-so1596

whiblin1604

so-fortha1616

jiggumboba1625

know-not-whata1642

thingum1652

thingum-thangum1684

what's-his-name1697

something or other1706

thingummy1737

thingamabob1751

something1764

what's-her-name1816

conundrum1817

thingamerry1819

thingamajig1824

somebody1825

what's-its-name1839

whangdoodle1852

thingummytite1865

dingus1866

what-not1876

whatsita1882

gilguy1883

gadget1886

dingbat1894

doohickey1914

oojah1917

oojah capivvy1917

oojiboo1918

doodad1920

tiddlypush1923

whosis1923

thingy1927

doodah1928

doofer1937

hootenanny1940

whatchamacallit1942

gizmo1943

frammis1948

whosit1948

whifflow1961

oobyjiver1963

whatsisface1967

oojamaflip1970

what's-her-face1980

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus v. ii. sig. Yiij^v Excesse of fleshely pleasures..hath taken awaye all thynges..my goodes or substance, my name .i. my good name and fame, my frendes, my glory .i. my renoume or estimation, what not? .i. what thyng is it that she hath not taken from me?

1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 185 His minde was so altered, his conditions so changed, and what not in him so alienated.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iv. sig. K I haue..Borne out the shock of war, & done, what not, That valour durst.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 115 Marrie peace it boads, and loue, and quiet life, An awfull rule, and right supremicie: And to be short, what not, that's sweete and happie.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 21 Dec. (1971) IV. 428 The strange variety of people..bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen, and what not.

?1720 A. Pope Corr. (1956) II. 24 Our evening Walks in the Park, our amusing Voyages on the Water, our philosophical Suppers, our Lectures, our Dissertations, our Gravities, our Reveries, our Fooleries, our what not?

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xix. 46 A Gentleman..who is my Master; and thinks himself intitled to call me Bold-face, and what not.

1849 in B. Gregory Side Lights (1898) 462 Well off with the profits of his books and whatnot.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. iii. 55 The blessed king's rosaries, the medals which he wore, the locks of his hair, or what not.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxix. 391 We had our chops and what not in the parlour of the inn.

1876 E. W. Heap Diary 11 June in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1969) lii. 56 [We] all started out on our grand excursion Picnic fishing party or what not.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xiii Fencing, dam-making, cattle-droving, what not.

1911 Athenæum 24 June 711/1 They were too apt to go to law and fight over their lands and fishing rights and what-not.

b. A thing or person that may be variously named or described; a nondescript. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > and indescribable

what-not1602

watnawhat1725

nondescript1802

indescribability1824

indescribables1839

1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife v. i. I 2 Why you Iacke sawce, you Cuckold, you what not.

1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. II. 481 Besides the furbelows and prétintailles, or ‘whatnots’, were hurly-burlies and fanfreluches.

c. Confusedly used in plural for ‘various things’.

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > miscellaneous things

short end1560

threads and thrums1600

varieties1624

giblet1638

thrum1648

scrip-scrap1711

sundries1711

odds and ends1761

oddment1821

odd-come-short1836

what-nota1861

flotsam1861

odds and sods1921

odds and bobs1957

a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 53 Passengers who are constantly to make portages will not encumber themselves with what-nots.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip ix I profess to be an impartial chronicler of poor Phil's fortunes, misfortunes, friendships, and what-nots.

d. Used as a euphemism for something the speaker does not wish to name.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown > where name is deliberately suppressed

you wot what1536

you-know-what1564

you-know-who1580

somebody1609

layer-over1699

thingy1927

how's your father1959

what-not1964

1964 in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 85 By the time I was fourteen I'd been a court witness in an indecent exposure case after an Indian doctor had been caught flashing his whatnot at me in an Adventure Playground.

1977 Custom Car Nov. 28/2 What ho, a twace of the fairer whatnot in the old Panther eh?

1977 M. Riley Ideal Friend iv. 30 She said..tapping the Cellophane-covered éclairs, ‘I don't know about you but these always put me in mind of nignogs' whatnots.’

2. An article of furniture consisting of an open stand with shelves one above another, for keeping or displaying various objects, as ornaments, curiosities, books, papers, etc.

ΘΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > for displaying articles

what-not1808

étagère1851

omnium1851

1808 Lady Lyttelton Corr. (1902) 54 The old chairs, tables, what-nots, and sofas.

1838 R. S. Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts 330 There was a ‘what not’ on the right of the fire-place.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5674 Canterbury what-not.

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 140 Such delicate trifles as we put upon a drawing-room table..or a whatnot.

Derivatives

ˈwhatnotism n. any or every kind of ‘ism’ (as a final term in an enumeration of ‘isms’).

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > system of belief, creed

beliefc1225

trowa1400

credo?1518

creed1623

faith1659

dogma1791

belief system1870

spirituality1905

whatnotism1915

1915 Galsworthy in Fortn. Rev. 1 Nov. 928 What is wanted in a work of art is an..adequate correspondence between fancy and form..so that one shall not be distracted by its naturalism, mysticism, cubism, whatnotism.

1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing i. v. 113 Those convicted of formalism, neo-Kantianism,..and whatnotism were given their deserved punishment.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	what-not
释义	what-notwhatnotn. /ˈhwɒtnɒt/ Etymology: Properly an elliptical interrogative phrase (see quot. 1540 at sense 1a below, and compare what pron., adj.¹, and adv. 5a). 1. a. Usually and preferably as two words /ˈhwɒtˈnɒt/: Anything whatever; everything; ‘anything and everything’; ‘all sorts of things’: mostly, now only, as final item of an enumeration: = anything else, various things besides; ‘whatever you like to call it’. (Also occasionally of persons.) ΘΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > anything whateOE aughtOE anywhata1400 what-not1540 anything1607 the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown swilk and swilkc1175 thinga1325 what-call-ye-him1473 who knows what?1548 I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568 God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569 washical1575 what-d'ye-call-'em1593 so-and-so1596 whiblin1604 so-fortha1616 jiggumboba1625 know-not-whata1642 thingum1652 thingum-thangum1684 what's-his-name1697 something or other1706 thingummy1737 thingamabob1751 something1764 what's-her-name1816 conundrum1817 thingamerry1819 thingamajig1824 somebody1825 what's-its-name1839 whangdoodle1852 thingummytite1865 dingus1866 what-not1876 whatsita1882 gilguy1883 gadget1886 dingbat1894 doohickey1914 oojah1917 oojah capivvy1917 oojiboo1918 doodad1920 tiddlypush1923 whosis1923 thingy1927 doodah1928 doofer1937 hootenanny1940 whatchamacallit1942 gizmo1943 frammis1948 whosit1948 whifflow1961 oobyjiver1963 whatsisface1967 oojamaflip1970 what's-her-face1980 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus v. ii. sig. Yiij^v Excesse of fleshely pleasures..hath taken awaye all thynges..my goodes or substance, my name .i. my good name and fame, my frendes, my glory .i. my renoume or estimation, what not? .i. what thyng is it that she hath not taken from me? 1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 185 His minde was so altered, his conditions so changed, and what not in him so alienated. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iv. sig. K I haue..Borne out the shock of war, & done, what not, That valour durst. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 115 Marrie peace it boads, and loue, and quiet life, An awfull rule, and right supremicie: And to be short, what not, that's sweete and happie. View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Pepys Diary 21 Dec. (1971) IV. 428 The strange variety of people..bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen, and what not. ?1720 A. Pope Corr. (1956) II. 24 Our evening Walks in the Park, our amusing Voyages on the Water, our philosophical Suppers, our Lectures, our Dissertations, our Gravities, our Reveries, our Fooleries, our what not? 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xix. 46 A Gentleman..who is my Master; and thinks himself intitled to call me Bold-face, and what not. 1849 in B. Gregory Side Lights (1898) 462 Well off with the profits of his books and whatnot. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. iii. 55 The blessed king's rosaries, the medals which he wore, the locks of his hair, or what not. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxix. 391 We had our chops and what not in the parlour of the inn. 1876 E. W. Heap Diary 11 June in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1969) lii. 56 [We] all started out on our grand excursion Picnic fishing party or what not. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xiii Fencing, dam-making, cattle-droving, what not. 1911 Athenæum 24 June 711/1 They were too apt to go to law and fight over their lands and fishing rights and what-not. b. A thing or person that may be variously named or described; a nondescript. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > and indescribable what-not1602 watnawhat1725 nondescript1802 indescribability1824 indescribables1839 1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife v. i. I 2 Why you Iacke sawce, you Cuckold, you what not. 1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. II. 481 Besides the furbelows and prétintailles, or ‘whatnots’, were hurly-burlies and fanfreluches. c. Confusedly used in plural for ‘various things’. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > miscellaneous things short end1560 threads and thrums1600 varieties1624 giblet1638 thrum1648 scrip-scrap1711 sundries1711 odds and ends1761 oddment1821 odd-come-short1836 what-nota1861 flotsam1861 odds and sods1921 odds and bobs1957 a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 53 Passengers who are constantly to make portages will not encumber themselves with what-nots. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip ix I profess to be an impartial chronicler of poor Phil's fortunes, misfortunes, friendships, and what-nots. d. Used as a euphemism for something the speaker does not wish to name. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown > where name is deliberately suppressed you wot what1536 you-know-what1564 you-know-who1580 somebody1609 layer-over1699 thingy1927 how's your father1959 what-not1964 1964 in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 85 By the time I was fourteen I'd been a court witness in an indecent exposure case after an Indian doctor had been caught flashing his whatnot at me in an Adventure Playground. 1977 Custom Car Nov. 28/2 What ho, a twace of the fairer whatnot in the old Panther eh? 1977 M. Riley Ideal Friend iv. 30 She said..tapping the Cellophane-covered éclairs, ‘I don't know about you but these always put me in mind of nignogs' whatnots.’ 2. An article of furniture consisting of an open stand with shelves one above another, for keeping or displaying various objects, as ornaments, curiosities, books, papers, etc. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > for displaying articles what-not1808 étagère1851 omnium1851 1808 Lady Lyttelton Corr. (1902) 54 The old chairs, tables, what-nots, and sofas. 1838 R. S. Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts 330 There was a ‘what not’ on the right of the fire-place. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5674 Canterbury what-not. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 140 Such delicate trifles as we put upon a drawing-room table..or a whatnot. Derivatives ˈwhatnotism n. any or every kind of ‘ism’ (as a final term in an enumeration of ‘isms’). ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > system of belief, creed beliefc1225 trowa1400 credo?1518 creed1623 faith1659 dogma1791 belief system1870 spirituality1905 whatnotism1915 1915 Galsworthy in Fortn. Rev. 1 Nov. 928 What is wanted in a work of art is an..adequate correspondence between fancy and form..so that one shall not be distracted by its naturalism, mysticism, cubism, whatnotism. 1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing i. v. 113 Those convicted of formalism, neo-Kantianism,..and whatnotism were given their deserved punishment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1540
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