Talk:overweight

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Describing a vehicle: I think this might be two words ("over weight") and not idiomatic. — Paul G 16:07, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Pretty common in USA, but should probably be tagged as transportation jargon or something. I don't recall ever seeing it as two separate words. --Connel MacKenzie 16:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Cited. Rod (A. Smith) 22:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

RFV passed. Thanks, Rod. —Ruakh_TALK 05:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

RFV discussion: May–June 2022

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overweight

Rfv-sense "An overweight person." To me, this usage would be very unusual. I am imagining sentences like: "Yes, this is our patient Steve, he is an overweight." I suspect this may really exist, but I have NEVER used the word like this myself. I was prompted to look into this when I was reading an HHS website about Overweight [1] where people are described as "having Overweight"; also an extremely bizarre formulation to me. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 16:09, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

What doesn't sound too weird to me is "to suffer from overweight", not that I would say it. DCDuring (talk) 04:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

The above example by DC is terrifying to me. Worse than "refute" meaning mere denial. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 00:47, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

It's often easier to search for these things in the plural, because that eliminates all the results using it as an adjective. It doesn't get rid of present indicative verbal uses, though. Anyway, if you search for "overweights" (with quotation marks) on Google Books/Scholar, it looks like there are enough hits to pass CFI. E.g.: "This finding is confirmed also by autopsy studies which show a higher incidence of gallstones in overweights than in individuals of average weight or less." 98.170.164.88 07:04, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

If it's only used this way in clinical jargon (in which it seems possible to use many a demographic/patient-describing adjective as a count noun for a patient of that type), it should probably have a label to that effect. I have seen the "excess of weight" senses ("suffer from overweight", etc), also in medical contexts. - -sche (discuss) 21:21, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Cited. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 02:04, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 21:59, 18 June 2022 (UTC)