Charlie Farnsbarns

English Proper noun Charlie Farnsbarns A generic or placeholder name applied, perhaps disparagingly, to someone whose actual name is unknown or unimportant. en Pragmatics 33 Siobhan Chapman 2011 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. en placeholder terms