Erika Mustermann - Slovak

Slovak

In Slovak, the most common placeholders are oné (originally an indefinite pronoun) or tento (originally a definite pronoun, close deixis) which can be used for both things and people. The most common placeholder for a full personal name is Janko Mrkvička or Jožko Mrkvička (lit. "Johnny/Joe Little Carrot"). Placeholder name for an unknown man, is týpek (borrowed from Czech language), for an unknown woman it's "čajka" (seagull), both terms used mostly by young people.

There are numerous expressions meaning "bullshit", that can by interchangeably used as placeholder names for things – these can be either colloquial, derived from names of farm animals (konina, kravina, volovina, somarina etc.), or obscene, derived from obscene names for genitalia (kokotina, chujovina, pičovina). Dzindzík is used as a placeholder for (control) elements of various devices. It is often used interchangeably with bazmek (derived from Hungarian "bazd meg" meaning "go fuck yourself") which can also be used to refer to entire devices or machines. "Obzerance s makom" is a placeholder name for food, as is "hovno s makom" ("shit with poppy seeds"), both generally used after someone asks what food is going to be eaten.

The standard placeholder for a place name is Horná Dolná (lit. "Upper Lower", a reference to a common type of village name which takes the form of a feminine adjective ending in -á, e.g. Terchová). It is often used in derogatory fashion to indicate a tiny and remote village (compare US English Hicksville). Remote places can be denoted as Tramtária, or "v riti" (in the butthole). For remote and rural places there is also the term "kde líšky dávajú dobrú noc" ("where foxes tell good night").

Time that is never to come is expressed as na svätého Dindy ("at St. Dindy's day"), because there is no such saint as Dindy (in fact, Dindy isn't a name at all, it just rhymes with nikdy, "never"). An expression keď naprší a uschne ("after it rains and dries out") is used for the same purpose.