Talk:Magd

RFV discussion: August–October 2021
German: “prostitute”. Tagged by 178.4.151.88 on 26 August, not listed: “Was tagged "informal", but isn't usual. So is it regional, slang, obsolete, neologism?” J3133 (talk) 11:42, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * An English speaker may refer to a woman who happens to be a prostitute by the noun, but this does not mean “prostitute” is one of the senses of this noun. We do list “prostitute” as an archaic senses of , but this seems dubious to me. Verification requires uses that specifically show a contrast between the use of wench referring to a “prostitute” and other terms for women that are not prostitutes; a prostitute being referred to as a wench is not enough. The same holds IMO for German . --Lambiam 09:55, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Was added by an IP from Brazil, looks bogus. Maybe in Hunsrik? –Jberkel 13:21, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Maybe, though Wikipedia says that Ethnologue says there are 1.5 million speakers of standard German in Brazil. I know that the German spoken in Chile is a variety of standard German that sounds quaintly archaic to modern Germans, and that may be true of the standard German spoken in Brazil as well. —Mahāgaja · talk 13:49, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Wow, that sounds like a lot, and it has a [citation needed] attached to it. I was going to verify this on Ethnologue but they made me identify pictures of trucks, so I left it at that. – Jberkel 14:13, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Probably even if you had identified the pictures of trucks they still would have demanded cash on the barrelhead for the privilege of looking at their often questionable data. —Mahāgaja · talk 14:23, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed: in [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Magd&type=revision&diff=64214626&oldid=63759031 diff], Herr de Worde replaced this with an even more not-distinct sense, "humble-minded person", citing Ruth where however Magd means sense 1. I undid his addition of that sense and put the Bible cite under sense 1, but I let the removal of the "prostitute" sense stand, as it's been a month since it was RFVed and there are no citations. - -sche (discuss) 10:34, 17 October 2021 (UTC)