something or other

see under or other.

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Nearby words

something else again, something in the wind, something is rotten in the state of denmark, something like, something of a, something or other, something tells me, something thing, a, sometime, sometimes, someway

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Examples from the Web for something or other

Turn up the reference, Polky—Ecclesiastes something-or-other.
Foe-Farrell|Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
There is also apt to be another ball, a "sociable" of the something-or-other coterie.
Harvard Stories|Waldron Kintzing Post
The man, a Chiracahua hand named Curley something-or-other, indicated a sacatone bottom a hundred yards to the west.
The Killer|Stewart Edward White
And in thingumbob retirement by the something-or-other stream you hit on the notion of splicing the lovely Lessie Lavigne.
The Dop Doctor|Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

Then Muriel will probably be left to get a job as school-teacher or something-or-other nearly as bad.
Running Sands|Reginald Wright Kauffman