Talk:grundy
Mrs. Grundy: an extremely conventional or rigid person, especially somebody who is prescriptive about grammatical rules Microsoft® Encarta® 2009
--Backinstadiums (talk) 17:25, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
- From which Grundyism, Grundyist. Equinox ◑ 17:26, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Equinox: I highlighted "especially somebody who is prescriptive about grammatical rules" --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:07, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
Interesting. I had never heard of the play. I wonder if the sense has changed to being more about grammar these days because Archie Comics' Miss Grundy was an English teacher? —Soap— 02:41, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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Sense 2: "The tendency of society at large to be overly concerned with censoring or criticizing personal conduct." I can't see how this noun definition would be used in a sentence. Equinox ◑ 08:57, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- I tried searching for phrases like "societal grundy", "grundy of society", "people's grundy", but couldn't find anything; even "his grundy", "their grundy" just turns up "his Grundy award" and the like. - -sche (discuss) 18:19, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 23:57, 26 March 2023 (UTC)