Simply what u say if u can remember a woman by how she looks but u cant remember her name.
When it is the same situation but with a man it is simply then "what's HIS face"....
Annoying as fuckcombination of words that dosent indentify a person, it is essantialy identifying their face!
Dude1: Dude, i smoked out that one girl, um whats-her-face? uh-
Dude 2: Dude, stop right there, are you asking what her face is, or asking who she is? If you want to know who she is, then fucking say Whats-her-name!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)