Talk:raspberry ripple

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Citation would back up the plurale tantum better than this. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:37, 1 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

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"(Cockney rhyming slang) A nipple." Note: if attested, I suppose the word should be changed from uncountable and given a plural. Equinox 17:34, 31 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I've created raspberry ripples as a plurale tantum with one citation. Attesting the plural is gonna be hard enough, I imagine the singular will be even rarer. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:59, 1 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Hmm, yes, the nipples sense does seem to be plural only. I seem to remember hearing it (only as "raspberry" - that's the way Cockney rhyming slang properly works) to mean (deprecated template usage) cripple. SemperBlotto 10:09, 1 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Google Books find it in three slang dictionaries, but actual uses are much harder to find. There are a couple of ambiguous uses where I'm not sure what it refers to. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:17, 1 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
I've removed the Cockney senses as RFV-failed (especially the "cripple" sense), but kept the one citation. - -sche (discuss) 04:02, 31 July 2011 (UTC)Reply