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Talk:more Catholic than the Pope

RFV discussion: October–December 2014

 * RFV-sense: (idiomatic) hypocritical Added later --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:39, 6 December 2014 (UTC).

The entry for more_Catholic_than_the_Pope includes "hypocritical" as a connotation. This is non-standard to the point of being the opposite of the main meaning of the idiom, and is either inadvertently confusing or deliberately wrong. Soliciting examples of usage with that meaning per RFV.
 * If it comes to that, I don't think I've ever heard it used literally, as in sense 1. Sense 2 is the only one I know. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 07:35, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * You must travel in exclusively secular circles. Google books abounds with more or less literal uses. The challenged sense is now the third sense in any event, which I didn't find among the first hundred+ hits at Google books. DCDuring TALK 10:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * No, but I travel in predominantly Protestant circles! —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 10:55, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I can't picture this directly meaning "hypocritical". I can certainly see it that context, though. For example, in "He cheats and steals throughout the week, but on Sundays is more Catholic than the Pope.", the expression is used in its literal meaning. --WikiTiki89 11:49, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I am fairly sure that the contributor of that definition, part of its creation, is not a native English speaker. A non-native speaker could have misinterpreted such a use, perhaps underestimating the importance of a word like but or missing an implicit contrast.
 * Other languages have similar expressions (translated as "more royalist than the king" (French), "a bowl hotter than the soup" (Persian)). DCDuring TALK 13:45, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It makes for the generic snowclone "more AdjP than NP", 'NP' being the paragon or arbiter of 'AdjP'. For a change, the prototype seems to be entryworthy, though sense 1 seems quite literal and transparent. OTOH I suppose that, even for that sense, there is a question of 'prior knowledge': accepting the convention that the Pope plays the role required. DCDuring TALK 13:59, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It makes for the generic snowclone "more AdjP than NP", 'NP' being the paragon or arbiter of 'AdjP'. For a change, the prototype seems to be entryworthy, though sense 1 seems quite literal and transparent. OTOH I suppose that, even for that sense, there is a question of 'prior knowledge': accepting the convention that the Pope plays the role required. DCDuring TALK 13:59, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

 * RFV failed: no attesting quotations for the sense "hypocritical" provided. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:36, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

RFC discussion: December 2011
Written as a verb, but it isn't one. In fact I'm not sure what it is, adjective I guess. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:10, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah it's an adj.Lucifer
 * Sense 1 could use despite the claim in its context tag. The usage note identifies a third sense we don't have listed as such. —msh210℠ (talk) 00:30, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * This looks to me like an entry for which the "Phrase" PoS is made. The headword does not behave very much like a true adjective. It is hardly ever used attributively and does not form a comparative. Instead it fits in the natural sequence "more X than Y", "as X as Y", and "less X than Y". DCDuring TALK 15:17, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * To save time, I'll agree with everything msh210 said. Mglovesfun (talk) 00:32, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ever? —msh210℠ (talk) 06:04, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Above my previous comment! Mglovesfun (talk) 11:29, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

title: Talk:more Catholic than the Pope


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rhizomorphic

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to a rhizomorph.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: rhizomorphic


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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sьrxy

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  hornet

Descendants

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title: Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sьrxy


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support level

Noun

 * 1) In technical analysis, a price level where the price tends to find support as it is going down, so it is more likely to "bounce" off this level rather than break through it. However, once the price has passed this level, by an amount exceeding some noise, it is likely to continue dropping until it finds another support level.

title: support level


text: support levels

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Talk:gaijins

RFD discussion: December 2014
grammatically incorrect; the plural of 'gaijin' is 'gaijin' 122.208.119.3 09:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * In Japanese, yes. In English however, "gaijins" seems to be pretty common (I've added some citations to the entry), just as people talk about kimonos, katanas, bonsais, sumos, sudokus, samurais and ninjas. Words often change grammatically when borrowed from one language to another, and what we care about is how the words are actually used by speakers, not about what would make grammatical sense in the original language - otherwise we'd have to delete pretty much everything in Category:Wasei eigo... Anyway, RFD is not for challenging the existence of words. If you still think gaijins does not exist, I'd recommend taking this to WT:RFV, although I've already added several examples of the word being used by English speakers. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:09, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not grammatically incorrect because it's a singular with an s on the end to make a plural. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:20, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Smurrayinchester, I was baffled to discover that even exists -- sumo is the sport, so it'd be like having  or  as plural nouns (our current entries are third-person singular simple present indicative verb conjugations).
 * ... And now I'm relieved to discover that is Spanish, and an adjective for that matter, that has nothing to do with traditional Japanese large-person wrestling.  ;)
 * Regarding the anon's comment about, Wiktionary tries to describe current usage, not prescribe what is considered "correct" usage. If a term can be found in use (in ways that meet our criteria for inclusion), then either Wiktionary already has such an entry, or our editors will get around to creating it at some point.  So it is with : we have adequate quotes showing usage, so this term is sufficiently cited for us to keep.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 21:33, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * In English at least (if not Japanese), can also mean sumo wrestler (see sense 2) and it has the plural :, , . —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:57, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, well. Change is the nature of the universe.  Anicca, anicca...
 * (Huh, looks like we're missing that entry.) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 22:26, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * @Smurrayinchester I can agree with all of those being able to be pluralised with -s except samurai. I've seen attestations of it being pluralised that way, but it seems ungrammatical to me.
 * As to gaijin, I don't think it's correct to pluralise it with "-s", but at the same time I don't give a blast about that word anyways, so I will abstain from voting. Tharthan (talk) 12:32, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Correctness isn't a criteria by which we keep or delete entries here -- simply whether a term can be shown in use, in sources that meet WT:CFI requirements.
 * Correctness is something that merits additional information in an entry, such as a “proscribed” context tag, or a usage note explaining the details.  /  etc. would probably benefit from such additions.
 * (FWIW, I agree with your impressions about the plural forms, but then, I'm also a Japanese linguist, and that colors my views.) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 16:07, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * the relevant words here are "I don't think". You alone don't get to decide which words English speakers use and don't use. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * @Eiríkr Útlendi Yeah, I know. I wasn't voting as much as I was commenting. I was more intending to suggest something along the lines of what you just said; a proscribed tag.
 * I think you misread the tone of my comment. I was simply giving my tuppence worth. I wasn't claiming it was any more important than what anyone else was saying. Tharthan (talk) 01:51, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

 * Keep as long as this English plural is attested, which seems to be the case as per . Of interest, the singular in dicts: . --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:55, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:17, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * RFD kept per consensus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:20, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

title: Talk:gaijins


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rip fence

Etymology
Referring to its use in guiding the workpiece during the process of making a rip cut.

Noun

 * 1) In a table saw, a fence or guide running from the front of the table (the side nearest the operator) to the back, parallel to the cutting plane of the blade.

title: rip fence


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outfeed

Noun

 * 1) A conveyor that pulls split firewood away from the processor and into a waiting vehicle or pile for later handling.

title: outfeed


text: outfeeds

title: outfeeds


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splitfinger

Noun

 * 1)  A split-finger fastball.

title: splitfinger


text: splitfingers

title: splitfingers


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חמרמורת

Etymology
The Academy of the Hebrew Language searched for a suitable translation for. In the end it was decided to use the root for two reasons, the first: wine is also called, the second: because in Biblical Hebrew the root is used to mean turning of the bowel: רְאֵה ה' כִּי צַר לִי מֵעַי חֳמַרְמָרוּ נֶהְפַּךְ לִבִּי בְּקִרְבִּי. The word חמרמורת was chosen based on the words and  which also describe body pains.

Noun

 * 1) hangover (illness caused by heavy alcohol drinking)

Usage notes

 * Although this is the recommend word by Academy of the Hebrew Language, is still common in Hebrew.

title: חמרמורת


text: duresse

title: duresse


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Fleming's right-hand rule

Etymology
Named after British engineer John Ambrose Fleming, who invented it.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A mnemonic that uses the right hand to show the direction of induced current when a conductor moves in a magnetic field. The right hand is held with the thumb, first finger and second finger mutually perpendicular to each other; then the thumb represents the direction of motion of the conductor; the first finger represents the direction of the field; and the second finger represents the direction of the induced or generated current.

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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/śirˀšō

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  hornet


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eschile

Noun

 * 1)  chyle

title: eschile


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righteye flounder

Etymology
Most species lie on the sea bottom on their left sides, with both eyes on their right sides.

Noun

 * 1) Any flounder of the family, except those in genus.

title: righteye flounder


text: أوردو

title: أوردو


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Citations:antiChinese

 * 1972, Wayne Ayres Wilcox, Leo E. Rose, Gavin Boyd, Asia and the international system ISBN 9780876260456
 * There was undoubtedly a strong antiChinese element in the proposal, although in theory China would have been invited to participate.

title: Citations:antiChinese


text: årsdager

title: årsdager


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anti-Markovnikov

Adjective

 * 1)  Contrary to Markovnikov's rule.

Translations

 * Portuguese: anti-Markovnikov

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)   contrary to Markovnikov's rule

title: anti-Markovnikov


text: ringmastered

title: ringmastered


text: ringmastering

title: ringmastering


text: årsdagar

title: årsdagar


text: årsdagane

title: årsdagane


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Roberval balance

Etymology
Presented to the French Academy of Sciences by the French mathematician Gilles Personne de Roberval in 1669.

Noun

 * 1) A kind of weighing scale with two identical horizontal beams attached, one directly above the other, to a vertical column.

title: Roberval balance


text: Roberval balances

title: Roberval balances


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Talk:big-dicked

big-dicked
An IP has been tagging this for speedy deletion on the grounds that it's not a single word, so I thought I would bring it here. While I disagree with the stated grounds for deletion, I do think this is quite SOP. The only question in my mind is whether we keep hyphenated adjective-noun constructions.

To avoid making this a debate about alleged obscenity, let's look at analogous constructions with less-controversial body parts: big-nosed, big-eared, big-footed, etc. I would argue that there are lots of adjectives that could be used this way: long-fingered, bony-fingered, sharp-toothed, crooked-fingered, short-thumbed, wide-hipped, etc. We have entries for broad-shouldered and long-legged. The first makes sense, because it implies more than mere measurement, but I'm not sure about the second.

Going further afield, what about round-windowed, blue-painted, sandy-soiled, big-trunked, or wood-paneled? All of these seem similarly SOP to me. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:03, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The meaning's very transparent. On the other hand it seems to me that it's a single word. Is the meaning easily derived from the sum of its parts? Possibly. To my surprise dicked exists. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:13, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * At least we have the appropriate sense of dicked. (Though we miss the other sense of dicked ("screwed", "fucked"), which is almost certainly a true adjective.) I hope we have all the similar adjectives of the form 'noun + -ed'. DCDuring TALK 15:07, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I scoured b.g.c for bigdicked in case this is coal-mineable, but no luck. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:28, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

 * Delete as redundant to dicked. Equinox ◑ 10:25, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. CFI's pretty clear on this one. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:33, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * My mistake, it says "An expression is idiomatic if its full meaning cannot be easily derived from the meaning of its separate components." It doesn't have any information on what makes single words idiomatic or not. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:07, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 15:34, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not really worried about this - it's a bit vulgar anyway - but I think it's worth pointing out that a word like dicked is usually qualified by another adjective, such as big, small or tiny. It is not usually used on its own. Donnanz (talk) 12:47, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * There are more sophisticated synonyms such as well-endowed and well-hung. I don't think anyone would suggest deleting those too. Donnanz (talk) 13:18, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep as single word. Ƿidsiþ 13:33, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * We seem to be missing quite a few of these, the number depending on whether the hyphen is required and how hard you want to search: limp-dicked/limp dicked, tiny-dicked/tiny dicked, monster dicked, giant dicked, huge dicked, hard-dicked/hard dicked, etc. I don't see how our language learners can do without them. DCDuring TALK 15:05, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Abstain Keep. This is a puzzling group of items. The entirely regular construction is that "(adj)-(noun)ed" is used to mean "having (adj) (noun)". I am considering the idea of keeping all space-free hyphenated forms, but hesitate. One information we provide by having this is that people actually say this; compare . Furthermore, the SoP claim cannot really be "big-" + "dicked" but rather "big-" + "dick" + "ed", and the last part of that composition is done without a space and without a hyphen. A related question is whether we want to use "big-dicked" to attest dicked, "dark-haired" to attest haired, "big-brain" to attest brained, etc. For the curious about frequencies: . --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:35, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Switched to keep. This should not be precendent-forming, though. In, Merriam-Webster has an idiomatic sense, while Collins and Webster 1913 only have the transparent one. Another interesting search: . --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:31, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Blue eyes aren't really blue, just as (natural) red hair isn't really red. DCDuring TALK 16:02, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * This should not be precedent-setting. I think it is stupidity-indicating. DCDuring TALK 16:24, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Had I voted in this discussion, my vote would have been meh. Still, it is an outlier, and editors who disagree with entries like this will not make entries like this. bd2412 T 16:32, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

RFD discussion: September 2014–July 2021
Passed RFD in 2014, when we were all a little less mature. Still majorly SOPpy. Indian subcontinent (talk) 20:26, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Imetsia (talk) 15:53, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

 * Delete as redundant to . Equinox ◑ 16:11, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

 * As I said before: "I'm not really worried about this - it's a bit vulgar anyway - but I think it's worth pointing out that a word like dicked is usually qualified by another adjective, such as big, small or tiny. It is not usually used on its own. Donnanz (talk) 12:47, 10 September 2014 (UTC)". DonnanZ (talk) 23:15, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

 * Yes, that's why our dicked entry says "in combination". The accompanying adjective can be anything, so we can't create entries for every possible combination. Equinox ◑ 15:08, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, the entry for is, dare I say it, . It needs some examples of its usage (big-dicked, etc.) added to justify the deletion of . DonnanZ (talk) 09:07, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ Indian subcontinent (talk) 11:16, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What's more, this page now has audio pronunciation, and enough quotations to satisfy RFV. DonnanZ (talk) 09:28, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete 🔥 ಶಬ್ದಶೋಧಕ 🔥 12:08, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmmm..., my only pause is hung, well-hung, etc. for synonyms but there is Thesaurus:macrophallic at those entries so redirecting to dicked and adding the thesaurus there would work. And there are a gazillion derived terms at dick (who would have guessed?) which itself could be linked to as well. Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 21:51, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, per above, covers everything and we're all misandrists now anyway. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:29, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. - -sche (discuss) 17:12, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. Imetsia (talk) 15:41, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:big-dicked


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palistrophic

Adjective

 * 1) Exhibiting palistrophe.

title: palistrophic


text:
palistrophe

Noun

 * 1) chiasmus

title: palistrophe


text: palistrophes

title: palistrophes


text: Rockefeller Republicans

title: Rockefeller Republicans


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rhizocephalan

Noun

 * 1)  Any member of the.

title: rhizocephalan


text:
rhipidoglossan

Noun

 * 1)  Any member of the.

title: rhipidoglossan


text: rhizocephalans

title: rhizocephalans


text: rhipidoglossans

title: rhipidoglossans


text: riservas

title: riservas


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rhizopodial

Adjective

 * 1) Having or relating to a rhizopod.

title: rhizopodial