Talk:sleepeat

@Philmonte101 Can you attest any of the other verb forms (the infinitive?) Otherwise it seems like the lemma should be at sleepeating as a noun. DTLHS (talk) 04:20, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

@User:DTLHS Please note that verbal nouns and verbs could be treated the same in this sense, since "the act of ____ing" is not much different than "____ing" with most words in English, so there's not much of a reason to distinguish between the two. For instance, we don't have a noun sense for peeing as "The act of peeing." That would be ridiculous. It's the same in this case.

On another note, I thought that there was a consensus here at some point that we would not RFV terms because of their use only in certain inflections, or RFVing certain inflections that are not attested. For instance, if "___", "____s", and "____ing" were attested, but technically, "____ed" is not attested, then that would be ignored. I imagine that it is the same in this case as well. Philmonte101 (talk) 04:28, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Compare sleepwalking. And consider the distinction between "Sarah is sleepeating every night" vs "Sleepeating can be dangerous". I would place your 1999 and 2008 citations with the first case, and the 2013 citation with the second. And I'm not going to RFV it. DTLHS (talk) 04:34, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

As for having an entry for "sleepwalking" as a noun but not "peeing", the best I can come up with is that sleepwalking is a medical disorder while peeing is not. Which seems sort of flimsy. Maybe there is a better justification. DTLHS (talk) 04:53, 20 July 2016 (UTC)