Talk:p.o.'ed

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p.o.'ed

Searching for this is especially difficult, due to the punctuation marks, of whic Google isn't a bg fan — This unsigned comment was added by Keene (talk • contribs) at 06:38, 8 March 2008 (UTC).

google books:"was p.o.'ed" pulls up a number of hits in this sense, but none seem to be using this exact punctuation. —Ruakh_TALK 13:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Adjective sense now cited (though I'm not sure about the formatting for the a. 2002, cite). It turns out b.g.c. doesn't always show the right punctuation on the search page. —Ruakh_TALK 14:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Widespread use? It gets my vote for that. Good luck citing. DCDuring TALK 14:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Nicely cited. I wouldn't bet on widespread use for the verb sense, partially because of the unnatural inflection. DCDuring TALK 17:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

And what's next, f*** or s***? Hekaheka 18:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Possibly. People actually say "P O'd" (I don't know phonetics) as an initialism with the "'d", so the justification for the entry is clear. I suppose it's a euphemism. Is there a word for f*** and f**k and all their relatives. Are they forbidden entry names? Would we say that they are pronounced like the underlying word or unvoiced "ffff"? Countless hours of amusement. DCDuring TALK 18:56, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, OK then. Somebody should add the pronunciation. Hekaheka 23:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Adjective sense passed; tag converted to rfv-sense.—msh210℠ 17:25, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Verb sense RFV failed, removed. —Ruakh_TALK 03:26, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

"you're getting P.O.'ed"

would the expression you're getting P.O.'ed count as a verb or as an adjective use? This was the name of a video game in which the player is attacked with filth instead of traditional weapons, and fights back with kitchen utensils. I specifically remember one weapon, a frying pan, which is ordinarily weak but becomes more powerful as the player gets more dirty, "because hey, you're getting P.O.'ed!" —Soap— 18:47, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

I suspect it would be an adjective, since I've never heard it without the -ed suffix. But maybe people do~occasionally say "P.O." by itself. —Soap— 18:49, 28 June 2023 (UTC)