English Dictionary

Charlie Farnsbarns

固有名詞

A generic or placeholder name applied, perhaps disparagingly, to someone whose actual name is unknown or unimportant.

日本語の意味

実際の名前が不明か、重要視されない人物に対して、一般的または仮の名前として用いられる（場合によっては侮蔑的に使われる）名前。

Nobody could remember his real name, so they just called him Charlie Farnsbarns with a sneer.

彼の本当の名前を誰も覚えていなかったので、彼らはただ軽蔑を込めて山田太郎と呼んだ。

意味（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.