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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Charlie Farnsbarns en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. A generic or placeholder name applied, perhaps disparagingly, to someone whose actual name is unknown or unimportant.
    • There is something different about the way in which (33) conveys the proposition that Charlie Farnsbarns exists, compared with how it conveys the proposition that he was in The Royal Oak last night. 2011, Siobhan Chapman, Pragmatics, page 33: