Talk:gar
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Why does the English entry link to garfish when that just links right back to gar? User:Language Lover 05:03, 28 January 2007
- Because they are synonyms. SemperBlotto 08:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Both GAR and Gar redirect here. These and the lowercase spelling all have a meaning which has persisted over the internet for years. Even as early as 2006, which precedes the above comments. I will link to articles about this:
I would like to, as I don't see this going away, eventually see it recognized here. But I'm apprehensive to add it because I want to make sure it fits Wiktionary standards of notability first. How would we go about verifying this sort of thing? For example, a test idea for the definition could be: an adjective describing someone with manly virtus (virtue). It is a slang neologism based on a merging of the terms gay and the first syllable (ar) of archer, the classification of the character Archer (Fate/stay night). It has been popularized on the anime boards of 4chan. DB 20:35, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: "spear". Neither the OED or EDD have any Modern English attestations of this form, which is to be expected, as the regular development of Old English gār, Middle English gor would be English goar, gore (The EDD happens to mention gore as a Somersetshire term meaning "goad", but it neglects to provide any attestations). If it transpires that there's any attestations, they would presumably be borrowings from Old English, but it probably doesn't belong to the group of legal, cultural, and sociopolitical terms that comprise the majority of borrowings and calques from Old English into modern English. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 05:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
RFV Failed. OED quotes "Gore, a long rod tipped with a small spear for driving oxen. Always so called." in a dictionary of Somerset dialect. Ioaxxere (talk) 20:41, 21 February 2023 (UTC)