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* [[Edgar Allan Poe]] wrote a short story entitled "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.", showing that particular form to be in familiar use in the United States [[Older Than Radio|in the 1840s]].
* The use of euphemisms like "You-Know-Who" and "Lord Thingy" for Voldemort in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books is a very specific application of this trope.
* Invoked by name by Gaspode in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** A parrot in ''[[
{{quote|It's a thing, innit? You know, a doodah, a dooberry. you know, tip of my tongue, a wossname. ''Metasyntactic variable.'' Yeah, that's it.}}
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