Talk:heavy

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See Special:PermanentLink/24549073#heavy. DCDuring TALK 23:01, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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a lorry in Glasgow with the words "HEAVY FILTHY" scrawled in the dirt

When I was in Glasgow at the end of January I took the photograph seen to the right. Someone has scrawled the words "heavy filthy" into the dirt on the tailgate. I took the photograph as using the word (deprecated template usage) heavy to mean (presumably) (deprecated template usage) very isn't one I'm familiar with. It doesn't seem to be covered by any of the senses at our heavy entry either. It could be a Scottish usage - given that it is on a road vehicle I can't be certain where it was written, but the company that operates the lorry has a distribution centre less than 1.5 miles away as the crow flies from where I photographed it, it could even be purely Glaswegian. Thryduulf 15:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

lol, I don't think we accept things written on the back of a truck as reliable citations. Otherwise I wish my wife was this dirty would have an entry. --Rising Sun talk? contributions 10:46, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Why not? They are good examples of a specific type of language use. They're informal, usually terse and (attempting to be) witty, indeed the example you give is an idiomatic set phrase - why is this less valid than works written on other media? True they are not normally durably archived (by their very nature) but photographs of the inscriptions (for want of a better word) can be. Thryduulf 13:51, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Idiomatic, definitely. We do have an entry for woz ere, which is quite similar as something you generally don't find in books, so there's hope yet. --Rising Sun talk? contributions 22:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Indeed a bgc and ggc search brings up quite a few durably archived reports of this exact phrase being used. Thryduulf 13:55, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Indeed, there are some decent hits for that phrase. I might even add an entry. Thanks. But I'm not going to create an entry for clean me, at least because it isn't witty. --Rising Sun talk? contributions 22:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

The use of heavy to mean "very" is fairly common on the Indian subcontinent.67.189.45.83 16:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for that, I've added this sense at heavy#Adverb, currently marked as just Indian English, I'll look again for Scottish usage. Thryduulf (talk) 17:04, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

*142lbs heavy

Mastering Eng: An Advanced Grammar for Non-native

measure phrases can appear w non-compared adjectives: 5 feet tall. Is the measure phrase an argument of the adjective or an adjunct? Why is it that the markedness of *142lbs heavy disappears once the adjective is in the comparative (2 inches taller alongside 2lbs heavier) ? 

--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:24, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

X-heavy expression?

I'm not a native speaker, so this might be very nonstandart, but isn't there the expression(?) "X heavy" which would mean "focusing on X" or "containing a lot of X"? Similar to the missing article "action heavy". This seems to me to be worth adding, but I don't have sources. --178.202.123.101 16:01, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

hang heavy

what meaning is used in hang heavy? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:27, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Noun sense

What does 'heavy' mean in this excerpt?

• 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

  Randy, J & I drove to Chicago for the concert. I couldn't believe how straight the audience was... I was one of the heavies! Small contingent of drag queens, tho.

Simplificationalizer (talk) 20:14, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Compare the following adjective uses from the same work.

• 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

Stayed at a friend of Jeffrey’s place & we 3 went to the Gold Coast, the heavy Chic S & M bar.

• 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

During intermission a kid passed by me & said "Hi, Lou. When you going on stage?" I smiled like a greaser—didn't say nothin, I was too heavy.

• 1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

You're really a heavy lady but you're still fucked-up.

--Simplificationalizer (talk) 13:06, 10 August 2023 (UTC)