Fred Nerk
noun Australian
A name for a hypothetical anonymous or ordinary person: the Government wants to allow Fred Nerk to do your tax...
- Why not vote for Fred Nerk instead?
- People had supplied names, but they'd all been Bill Smith or Fred Nerk.
- A client might come in and say: 'I owe Fred Nerk $30,000.'
Origin
1960s: from the personal name Fred + nerk.
- listen
- listenability
- listenable
- listener
- listenership
- listen in
- listening device
- listening post
- listening skills
- listening station
- listen to reason
- listen with half an ear
- lister
- listeria
- listeriosis
- Lister, Joseph
- listicle
- listing
- listless
- listlessly
- listlessness
- list MP
- Liston, Sonny
- list price
- list processing