Talk:talk smack

RFV discussion: March–April 2023

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talk smack

Rfv-sense: 2. To slander.

I don't think that the cites support this sense, certainly not unambiguously. UD has a definition that fits my hearing of the expression: "To talk trash, insulting or casting doubt on a person's ability." (429 thumbs up, 164 down; no other definition comes close). Our first definition is not as good as UD's . DCDuring (talk) 19:41, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Our definition is clearly wrong, since one of our own quotes defines it differently: "One of them, the white mask, the leader, was talking smack at me." / "Talking smack?" / "You know, talking smack, talking trash, giving me shit about being Indian." Ioaxxere (talk) 22:07, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

I've added definition 1 to the RFV, because as you say, the cites don't seem to support that definition as written, either. It seems like the two definitions may be two (imperfect) attempts at getting at the underlying meaning. - -sche (discuss) 05:36, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

RFV Resolved, I combined the definitions and added a few references. Ioaxxere (talk) 00:22, 15 April 2023 (UTC)