Talk:Charlie

RFV discussion — failed
The verb. Equinox ◑ 23:20, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I thought we'd already RfD/RfV'd this sense in the past, but maybe it was the noun. It's a neologism derived from the character of Charlie (played by Charlie Sheen) in the American sitcom Two and a Half Men. --EncycloPetey 21:06, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Deleted. Equinox ◑ 01:05, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Non-Vietnam war usage
s:ja:Page:成沢玲川『米国物語』.djvu/76

所が玆にジヤツプの如く國家的ならずして個人的に日本人の憤怒を招く言葉ある. 夫れはチヤ〜レーと云ふ名前で、白人が日本人を見ると「お早うチヤーレー」と云つたやうな挨拶をする. オノラブル好きの日本人にはサーとでも言へば氣に入るが、チヤーレーと言はれると小僧とでも言はれたやうに腹が立つ.

my translation: However, there is a word that draws the ire of a Japanese, not nationally as Jap, but personally. That is the name Charlie; when a white man sees a Japanese, he will greet him with "Good morning, Charlie." The honorable-loving Japanese might appreciate a Sir, but if he is called Charlie, he gets angry as if one had called him a boy.

—Fish bowl (talk) 08:34, 23 March 2022 (UTC)


 * 《胡适口述自传》—Fish bowl (talk) 05:24, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July 2022–February 2023
A short, pointed beard, like that of King Charles I.

Not particularly easy to search for, but plausible I suppose. If real, almost certainly needs some qualifiers. Theknightwho (talk) 19:19, 6 July 2022 (UTC)


 * It's mentioned in 2013, Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang: "In mid-19 C. a Charlie was a small pointed beard." Equinox ◑ 17:21, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

There are three citations at, so I'll call this ✅. Ioaxxere (talk) 18:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

RFV Passed. Ioaxxere (talk) 22:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)