Reader question: In this – Random thoughts and whatnot – what's "whatnot"?
My comments:
Random thoughts and things like that.
"Whatnot" means other things of the same type that you have already mentioned without actually naming them. Always preceded with an "and". "And whatnot" is similar to:
and so on (meaning you could go on, without actually attempting to do so) , and so forth (same as "so on"), so on and so forth (used in speech, especially perhaps when you have more time than you have to say), and such (similar things) and such like (same as "and such") et cetera (etc. for short, from Latin), etc etc (used when even you yourself are bored by the list you're giving), ad infinitum (also from Latin, meaning going on and on without ever ending).
And, of course, ad nauseam.
Never mind the last, here are examples:
and so on (Bleak House, Charles Dickens):
Equity sends questions to law, law sends questions back to equity; law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can so much as say it can't do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie. And thus, through years and years, and lives and lives, everything goes on, constantly beginning over and over again, and nothing ever ends.
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