Talk:lame
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"strangely corny or sweet to an extent". The Usex looks to me like just another example of the previous definition (uncool). Isn't this just putting a positive spin on the same meaning? Kiwima (talk) 19:04, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- Made-up usexes do not serve to attest senses anyway. To include the corny sense we need examples of actual use in that sense. --Lambiam 10:59, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
- Delete, or RFV if necessary. Per utramque cavernam 10:34, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- I recall noticing this myself and wondering about the distinctness of it. It does seem like, in the second usex, the carrots aren't exactly "uncool" in a way that makes it "disliked", but if our chief RFV-tender/parser-of-cites thinks it's the same sense, I'm inclined to go along with that assessment. There does seem to be a continuum, like "before he was deployed overseas I never realized how much I liked seeing his lame ___ every morning", where the person did dislike the thing but now views it positively (like the corny carrots), which also suggests that a merger is in order, although we might need to expand/tweak the "failing to be cool" definition. - -sche (discuss) 18:28, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- Delete, not a separate sense. bd2412 T 03:52, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
- RFD deleted on the sense per consensus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:52, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: To shine. - apparently appears in Piers Plowman, but I couldn't find it, or anything else TVdinnerless (talk) 06:09, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- Not seeing any such sense recorded either by the OED or MED. — SGconlaw (talk) 06:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:40, 7 August 2021 (UTC)