Talk:tiramollare
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Italian. Created by User:SemperBlotto. Supposedly means "to hesitate, to shilly-shally" (cf. the noun tiramolla, which can have this meaning) but dictionaries only give a different nautical meaning concerning moving a mast by pushing ropes on one side and pulling on the other. I can't verify the shilly-shally meaning in any dictionary whatsoever (nor in context.reverso.net, where you'd think it would be easy to find if it were real; nor in GDLI). @Catonif, Sartma if you have possibly heard of this. Benwing2 (talk) 05:48, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Not being a sailor, if I heard this I would presume it being a colloquial neologism meaning exactly "to hesitate" coming from the expression fare a tiremmolla "to hesitate", following the same path of farsi una doccia > docciarsi, fare colazione > colazionare. It doesn't actually seem to be in use though. Catonif (talk) 14:18, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Benwing2: Do you want to retract the RFV after you rewrote the definition? According to
{{R:tr:LF}}the nautical sense is widespread in the Meditteranean. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:35, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- RFV-resolved: sense "to hesitate" removed, nautical sense kept. Ultimateria (talk) 18:33, 4 September 2023 (UTC)