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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

what have you en · PRON

Meanings

  1. (colloquial) Any of several additional, unmentioned things.
    • He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters. 1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, page 40:
    • “Like I said on the televisual apparatus, every homeless person has a story to tell,” said Mr. Stink. “That’s mine. I am sorry it didn’t involve spies or pirates or what have you. Real life isn’t like that, I’m afraid. And I didn’t mean to upset you.” 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
    • So you might not have a million-seller every time, 'cause you're not movin' around and what have you, but at least you'll have a good track record. 2000, Jas Obrecht, Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists, page 387:

Forms

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whathaveyou alternative lexicographic
what-have-you alternative lexicographic

Relateds

et cetera · such-and-such · and so on · whatnot · you name it · suchlike

Translations (16)

fi sen semmoista (any of several additional things) · fi jokin (any of several additional things) · cmn 之類的 /之类的 (any of several additional things) · de und, und, und (any of several additional things) · is og þvíumlíkt (any of several additional things) · cmn 什麼的 /什么的 (any of several additional things) · cmn 等等 (any of several additional things) · es y tal (any of several additional things) · de und so weiter (any of several additional things) · fr quoi que ce soit (any of several additional things) · ru и вся́кая вся́чина (any of several additional things) · ru и про́чее (any of several additional things) · de was weiß ich (any of several additional things) · fr que sais-je encore (any of several additional things) · de was auch immer (any of several additional things) · de oder so (any of several additional things)