Talk:stevvon

RFV discussion: June 2018–February 2019

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stevvon

Searches for "stevvons", "stevvoning", "stevvoned", "stevvon'd" turn up just enough hits that one (consolidated?) verb definition-line is probably citable, although several of the places the word occurs are dialect dictionaries, whose usexes (if not direct quotations of real people or works) don't count. - -sche (discuss) 06:30, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

It's really a slightly more modern dialectal (spelling) variant of steven. It's listed as an Alternative form there Leasnam (talk) 12:05, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

I didn't (and don't) want to RFV steven until I can make an effort to cite its various senses and find out which I can and can't find citations for, but ultimately it too needs to be checked. - -sche (discuss) 20:51, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

In any case consider glossing as obsolete unless we have good evidence that modern northerners have a clue what this means. Equinox ◑ 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Even combining all the senses and reducing this to an alt form, it only has 2 citations for the verb and 1 for the noun. Several old dictionaries, including the EDD and dictionaries of specific dialects, have usexes (of "stevvon[e]d oot", etc), but CFI doesn't allow made-up examples of how a word could be used. I'm about to RFV almost all the senes of the "lemma" spelling, steven, because I can't find citations for any of them except the first one ("the voice"). - -sche (discuss) 07:12, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

I've added a third cite for the verb stevvon. It comes from the Recontres section of The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood, which begins at page 1. The cite is on page 67 here [[1]], so it is not a usex. Leasnam (talk) 03:53, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

The verb passes. The noun still only has one citation. Kiwima (talk) 23:49, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

...and that citation isn't even a use, but seemingly a made-up usex:

• 1876, F. K. Robinson, A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby:

  Stevvon, force; loudness. 'Your clock strikes with a desperate stevvon.'

I've deleted the noun section as RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 17:32, 16 February 2019 (UTC)