Talk:rustle
RFV[edit]
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Rfv-sense "to move speedily, especially in the phrase rustle up some food". Removed by a user with the edit summary "'move speedily' is not what it means; it's 'forage for' like in the stealing sense, but only in 'rustle up' so it can stay there". I reverted and brought it here instead. Note our other sense of rustle, "to steal cattle or other livestock".—msh210℠ (talk) 19:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
- "to make, do, secure, obtain, or move in a lively energetic manner (i.e. move speedily)" is a definition upheld by Century Dictionary, Collins, et al. Leasnam (talk) 20:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
- MWOnline has two related intransitive subsenses (no parent sense):
- a : to act or move with energy or speed
- b : to forage food
- MWO does not have an entry for rustle up. Presumably they have some evidence that rustle can be used in the forage sense either with no particle or with a PP. I'm fairly sure that I can rustle up some examples of that expression not relating to food, excepting that for thought. DCDuring TALK 22:51, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
- google books:"rustle some food", sans "up", gets lots of hits on Google Books. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:52, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
- Rustle up some food doesn't not mean "move speedily up some food"! IP was probably right to speedy delete it. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:56, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
- no, that example certainly does not best fit that sense. In the sense of stir, hustle it perhaps does. Leasnam (talk) 02:03, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
- Rustle up some food doesn't not mean "move speedily up some food"! IP was probably right to speedy delete it. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:56, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
- google books:"rustle some food", sans "up", gets lots of hits on Google Books. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:52, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
- "Move quickly" sense: RFV-failed. "Make or obtain in a lively, energetic way", which was added after the RFV tag and was not subject to RFV: kept. :) - -sche (discuss) 20:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Stir about?[edit]
Chambers 1908 has an intransitive verb sense, marked as US usage: "to stir about". It can't mean stirring something (like stew) since that would be transitive; so perhaps it means stirring oneself (waking from bed etc.?) or simply bustling around? Equinox ◑ 07:29, 30 August 2019 (UTC)