Talk:sleepdrunk
Latest comment: 11 years ago by -sche in topic RFV discussion: April–October 2012
This is more fit for Urban Dictonary than to wikitonary. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sleepdrunk — This unsigned comment was added by 93.172.228.215 (talk) at 13:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC).
- We do include slang, as long as it's actually real and attested. "More fit for Urban Dictionary" seems like a euphemism for "no one has ever actually used it". —RuakhTALK 13:32, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
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Really? SemperBlotto (talk) 20:45, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
- If it's real, I wonder whether it's due to a misunderstanding of sleep-drunk (“in a drowsy state, similar to drunkenness, immediately after being awakened from deep sleep”), or whether it arose independently? —RuakhTALK 21:34, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
- I added three citations. The second and third are actually hyphenated, but they are between lines, so it's not possible to tell whether they are intended as a single word or not. The 1963 citation is clear, though, and GB has plenty of other citations. --BenjaminBarrett12 (talk) 05:42, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- They're definitely sleep-drunk. It's no coincidence that a search for "sleepdrunk", written solid, mostly pulls up cases across a line-break: it's because "sleep-drunk" is so well attested, and "sleepdrunk" so poorly attested, that the cases of "sleep-drunk" spanning a line-break greatly outnumber the cases of "sleepdrunk". And I'm not convinced that the first cite is in the RFV'd sense. —RuakhTALK 11:27, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- I'd say that none of them support this definition. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:29, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, right, yes, I agree. (I just focused on the first cite because it was the only cite for sleepdrunk.) —RuakhTALK 11:42, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- I do agree the definition needs to be revised slightly. I've never heard this word before, so would rather someone familiar with it do that. --BenjaminBarrett12 (talk) 17:19, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. Feel free to re-add with a correct definition if there are enough citations for one. - -sche (discuss) 02:10, 2 October 2012 (UTC)