Talk:underween

RFV discussion: November 2017

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underween

Three bad citations. 1977: "You'd better underween": what is this meant to mean: "you'd better undervalue"? How is that even intransitive? 1995: looks like a nonce coinage based on the adjective "overweening" (thus not implying the existence of a verb lemma "underween" at all); 2008 ditto. Google Books does not look positive. Equinox ◑ 02:16, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

There seems to be a lot of evidence for "underweening" as an adjective, and I have added that to the underweening page, moving the citations that were incorrectly assigned to other categories. I did find one cite that looks like a verb, and I have left the "You'd better underween", but that still leaves us needing a third cite if we are to keep this as a verb. Kiwima (talk) 04:28, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

I would like to see more context around "you'd better underween" because at present it's totally unclear what it means. I'll try to find it at some other time if nobody beats me to it. Equinox ◑ 04:44, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

There are also some uses to be found on Usenet. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:05, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 02:02, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 05:04, 11 November 2017 (UTC)