Talk:asswipe

asswipe
"(British-informal-vulgar) toilet paper, especially in the plural." Hard to imagine a British-only word with ass (not arse) in it. Citations? Equinox ◑ 08:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * It's in the OED, and so is ("especially in the plural" is wrong though).

That said, I cheated slightly: is uncountable, so I looked for (and found, and added) uncountable cites, which accords neither with our example sentence nor with the originally RFV'd def. Incidentally, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English has a cite that's earlier than any of ours — also uncountable — which I didn't add. If someone else wants to add it, feel free; it's from the book The New Centurions, which b.g.c. has indexed; see. —Ruakh TALK 00:38, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Cited, though "British" was also wrong: two of the cites I found are by American Vietnam vets, and the third is by more-or-less an American Vietnam vet. Maybe or ?

RFV passed. —Ruakh TALK 21:30, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion: September–November 2022
Rfv-sense
 * A periodical which has the habit of publishing questionable statements.
 * This was added by a French editor with marginal English skills. I suspect the real meaning is something along the lines of "A poor-quality, worthless publication", the idea being that it's so bad that the paper it's printed on would be better used as toilet paper. Now, a newspaper or similar publication that prints questionable things (the original wording was "questionable truths") is certainly not good, but that doesn't mean that the term refers to that specifically. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:14, 18 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Failed. - TheDaveRoss  13:20, 1 November 2022 (UTC)