Talk:pukeskin
Latest comment: 3 years ago by -sche in topic RFV discussion: September–October 2020
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DTLHS (talk) 03:39, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
- At the time I created it it was apparently attestable from Usenet. It's no longer possible for me to search Usenet easily. Equinox ◑ 18:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
- I don't have time right now to add them or investigate them to determine what they mean by the term (and I've never heard the term before and it is not obvious to me why it would refer to a white person, puke being often yellow or red), but I can confirm I see 17 hits from at least 4 Usenet newsgroups for the plural "pukeskins" and at least 16 hits from at least 3 newsgroups for the singular. - -sche (discuss) 08:40, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Equinox OK, looking into this more closely, it seems like all of the hits where it means "white person" are from a ~1 year window (almost all are from 2000, a few go a little ways into 2001) and come from one user (Blackstar) under two usernames (the other being Skiff Islaan, who other users identify as Blackstar), so I believe this should fail RFV. OTOH, it's possible it scrapes by as a derogatory term for a Redskin(s) football player (see the cites page). A more common term with a more intelligible colour reference is "cumskin". - -sche (discuss) 00:53, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- Yeah. I agree. I can't find anything now. Equinox ◑ 20:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 01:37, 28 October 2020 (UTC)