Talk:angelling
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"1. A small or inferior angel. 2. Anything dear, yet petty." No hits for angellings plural in Google Books. The entry has one cite for each supposed sense, but the first one seems like a nonce-word verb ("angelling" = doing the work of angels) and the second also looks verb-like, and seems to bear no relation to the claimed definition. Equinox ◑ 22:13, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
- The second is a verbing of 'angel investor'. (Minor annoyance: journalist named Angel Ling)
- "It ends with Snooki spraying herself in ketchup and snow-angelling on Sitch's bed." Cinema Blend
- "That, it seems to me, is exactly the point we need to understand about epiphanies, angelling, and the message which arrive from non-ordinary and parallel realities." GBC Dolphin's Leap, Hind's Feet: Becoming a Mystic: Journey, Discipline and Practice perhaps an epiphanous experience.
- "Nimbus rolled his eyes at this trite lesson from Good Angelling 101." GBC Trouble with Angels verb of being an angel.
- "Or maybe they just don't think Grandma needs any angel-ling when she has this devoted family." GBC Have The Men Had Enough? verb of being like an angel.
- - Amgine/ t·e 03:41, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- The "Snooki" cite is from snow angel pressed into service as a verb. It's not evidence of angelling at all. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:01, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- <confused look> That seems to me to be an arbitrary level of precision, since any specific angel type might be verbed, such as the angel investor(ing), just as angel itself might be. I had another cite for "snow angelling" - in effect, the same as Good Angelling below it. However, none of my cites were intended to support the adjectival use in the article. They were intended to show that it is used as a verb and noun, but not as claimed in the existing definitions. - Amgine/ t·e 17:28, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- The "Snooki" cite is from snow angel pressed into service as a verb. It's not evidence of angelling at all. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:01, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- I mainly RFVed this because I don't think the supposed definitions have got any link whatsoever to the intended meaning of the cited writers. Equinox ◑ 21:07, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah it was a mistake by myself. Once I read it as a verb, it was clear that that is what it was. Leasnam (talk) 02:01, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
- I mainly RFVed this because I don't think the supposed definitions have got any link whatsoever to the intended meaning of the cited writers. Equinox ◑ 21:07, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
- RFV failed. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 22:14, 11 May 2017 (UTC)