Talk:grasseater

RFV discussion: October 2022–February 2023

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grasseater

This entry, or one or more of its senses, has been nominated as derogatory pursuant to WT:DEROGATORY. It may be speedily deleted if it does not have at least three quotations meeting the attestation requirements within two weeks of the nomination date, that is, by 10 November 2022.

Rfv-sense for the last sense. AG202 (talk) 13:48, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

It's a very widespread term but apparently it's only ever written with a hyphen. I've added three citations to grass-eater. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 14:55, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

While you were looking around did you see any evidence of the law enforcement definition? - TheDaveRoss 15:02, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

I did not, no, but I added "Japan", "Japanese" etc. to my search query so these were likely filtered out. I did a quick search now and the police officer sense, too, seems to mainly only exist with the hyphenated spelling. There's a definition-like use of the hyphen-less variant here: [1] — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 15:24, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

The form grasseater fails. — Sgconlaw (talk) 21:58, 9 February 2023 (UTC)