"Machin" meaning in French

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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from machine.",
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      "form": "Machins",
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    },
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      "form": "Machine",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "fr",
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        {
          "english": "She was walking with Thingy; I've forgotten his name.",
          "text": "Elle se promenait avec Machin ; j’ai oublié son nom.",
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          "english": "In a café in P*, the capital of F*, a young Moroccan, having politely approached me (\"Are you what's-his-face, the reporter?\") insisted that I should listen to his story.",
          "ref": "2012, Fouad Laroui, “Né nulle part”, in L’Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine, page 41:",
          "text": "Dans un café de P*, capitale de la F*, un jeune Marocain, m’ayant civilement abordé (« Vous êtes bien Machin, le gazetier ? »), m’affirme de manière véhémente que je dois entendre son histoire.",
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        "what's-his-face (a general word used to designate a person whom one does not know how to name more precisely, in particular whose name has been forgotten)"
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        "(informal) what's-his-face (a general word used to designate a person whom one does not know how to name more precisely, in particular whose name has been forgotten)"
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        "masculine"
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  "word": "Machin"
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      "form": "Machins",
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    },
    {
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          "english": "She was walking with Thingy; I've forgotten his name.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "In a café in P*, the capital of F*, a young Moroccan, having politely approached me (\"Are you what's-his-face, the reporter?\") insisted that I should listen to his story.",
          "ref": "2012, Fouad Laroui, “Né nulle part”, in L’Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine, page 41:",
          "text": "Dans un café de P*, capitale de la F*, un jeune Marocain, m’ayant civilement abordé (« Vous êtes bien Machin, le gazetier ? »), m’affirme de manière véhémente que je dois entendre son histoire.",
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