Talk:dump
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"A home for the homeless."? --Connel MacKenzie 17:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- homeless person = person who lives in a dump ??? DAVilla 22:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
This is an offensive association.Rfvfailed. Andrew massyn 10:56, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
REmoved usage note.[edit]
I took this out as it seems pov.
The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being in the dumps after the battle of Cannae. --Dmol 07:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Another archaic meaning ?[edit]
There is another meaning, used by Romeo in Romeo & Juliet and by others around that time ("play me some merry dump to comfort me.") meaning a funereal dance. Pun possibly intended, not sure... 24.59.51.98 12:47, 7 April 2019 (UTC) (Schissel @ Wikipedia)