Talk:evil laugh

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Kept. See archived discussion of November 2008. 07:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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Rfv-sense: stereotypical villains laugh. Had been RfD'd (by me) and deleted (by MSH), but citations and redefinition seem to make it OK.

• cited. DCDuring TALK 22:52, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

While the others look tolerable, I think the 2004 citation may be invalid for this sense ("adding the evil laugh he had learned from cartoon bad guys"): it's just the laugh he had learned that happened to be an evil one, not "the [specific] evil laugh, which he had learned". Equinox 22:56, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Dodgy indeed. I've commented it out. We have had been following the practice of including the literal sense to contrast with figurative senses. It might be useful for that. I'll put it under a separate header on the citations page. DCDuring TALK 23:16, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Already detagged. Striking.​—msh210℠ 17:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

RFD discussion: August–September 2023

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evil laugh

Rfd-sense: interjection. The distinctive semantic information here is conveyed by < > or * *. Compare *snicker*: Uh-oh! <snicker> Arab world getting very nervous .. [snicker] - this doesn't mean we need an interjection sense at snicker. This, that and the other (talk) 04:10, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Delete. I agree this is not lexically significant as a POS in itself. We could add a usage note about the ironic online usage which this is accounting for though. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 21:24, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Delete per the above. PUC – 08:50, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Delete. Ultimateria (talk) 01:16, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

• Deleted. I incorporated some stuff into Usage notes. Jewle V (talk) 08:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)