Kadigan is a term used to describe placeholder words. The ‘kadigan‘ Wikipedia page is all about placeholders.

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For instance, a few placeholders for ‘People‘:

Joe Blow

Tom, Dick and Harry

Joe Public

The Joneses

Buddy

So and So

John Doe

Frick and Frack

Or placeholders for ‘Numbers‘:

squillion buhmillion, frillion, gazillion, jillion, kajillion, hojillion, schmillion, zillion

eleventy-; e.g., eleventy-four

mumblety, used specifically to conceal one’s advanced age, as in “I shall be mumblety this year” or “mumblety-three”

umpteen

oodles

tons

scads

buckets

some-odd

a couple

a couple-few or coupla few

bunch

[expletive]-load e.g. shitload or shitloads

metric fuck-ton

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