Talk:broccoloid

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Both senses look like tosh to me. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:50, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

This one may hinge on whether 3 independent coinages satisfy the 3-cite rule. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:56, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

This seems to be barely attestable as an adjective:

1994, Karol V. Menzi, "Like it or not, mom was right about broccoli", The Baltimore Sun, 13 April 1994:

She uses the stems, not the flowers. She trims the stems and peels them if they're tough, then grates them and mixes them with raisins, grated carrots and mayonnaise. If she's feeling adventurous, she says, she tosses in a little curry powder to spice up the dish. "This doesn't taste so 'broccoloid.'"

The sense "a broccoli-like humanoid creature" apparently occurs solely in an episode of the cartoon The Powerpuff Girls. Astral (talk) 08:47, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Noun senses RFV-failed; adjective sense added per the above citations. - -sche (discuss) 01:38, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

-- Just a comment about noun-sense versus adjective-sense: I believe that in the example derived from my usenet post, I was using the word as a noun in a noun phrase, not as an adjective to modify "flowerets." If you look at the rest of the post, broccoloid is a thing I was speculating about, a kind of future food. 50.1.50.95Lucy Kemnitzer

Thanks for the insight. I interpreted "broccoloid flowerets" as an example of an adjective modifying a noun, given the occurrence of similar phrases like "muffinoid objects," "shrimplike friable bits," and "spinachlike green masses" in your Usenet post. But you're the best authority on whether this particular use of "broccoloid" represents an adjective or a noun, so I've moved your Usenet post off the main entry and onto the citations page. Thankfully, I was able to find a replacement citation. Astral (talk) 03:35, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

P.S. (deprecated template usage) Muffinoid is another great word. Presumably, (deprecated template usage) muffiny is a lot more common, but I'll see if I can gather enough cites to add it nonetheless. Astral (talk) 03:40, 8 May 2013 (UTC)