Talk:oyster
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- (slang) "A person who keeps the secrets entrusted to him."
- Badly worded. Could have rfv'ed. Anyone ever heard of this? If not, move to rfv. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:53, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- MWOnline has: "an extremely taciturn person". Undoubtedly derived from the difficulty of opening one without heat. See clam up. DCDuring TALK 12:56, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- "Close as a Kentish oyster" means absolutely secret, while "fast as a Kentish oyster" means fast shut. Supposedly because an oyster, once out of water, is tight shut. Pingku 13:59, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- Ok, I think the words above sounds like non-native speaker English. It shouldn't use "him". Consider it fixed. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- Anyone still not happy? Mglovesfun (talk) 22:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
- Ok, I think the words above sounds like non-native speaker English. It shouldn't use "him". Consider it fixed. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- "Close as a Kentish oyster" means absolutely secret, while "fast as a Kentish oyster" means fast shut. Supposedly because an oyster, once out of water, is tight shut. Pingku 13:59, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
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- (slang) "A person who keeps the secrets entrusted to him."
- Badly worded. Could have rfv'ed. Anyone ever heard of this? If not, move to rfv. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:53, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- MWOnline has: "an extremely taciturn person". Undoubtedly derived from the difficulty of opening one without heat. See clam up. DCDuring TALK 12:56, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- "Close as a Kentish oyster" means absolutely secret, while "fast as a Kentish oyster" means fast shut. Supposedly because an oyster, once out of water, is tight shut. Pingku 13:59, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- Ok, I think the words above sounds like non-native speaker English. It shouldn't use "him". Consider it fixed. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- Anyone still not happy? Mglovesfun (talk) 22:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
- Ok, I think the words above sounds like non-native speaker English. It shouldn't use "him". Consider it fixed. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- "Close as a Kentish oyster" means absolutely secret, while "fast as a Kentish oyster" means fast shut. Supposedly because an oyster, once out of water, is tight shut. Pingku 13:59, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Oyster the seafood vs oyster the fowl meat[edit]
These don't seem to be distinguished very well. The translations have senses of "mollusc" (which to me implies the live animal), and "food" (which doesn't indicate whether it means seafood or fowl). Some of the translations under "food" are unmistakably for fowl (e.g. French sot-l’y-laisse), while others are unmistakably for seafood (e.g. Japanese 牡蠣).
There should probably be another definition added to distinguish mollusc the animal from mollusc as food (perhaps as a sub-definition), and the translations definitely need to be checked and have oyster-seafood separated from oyster-fowl-meat. --Bigpeteb (talk) 21:57, 22 November 2020 (UTC)