Talk:beaver eater

RFD discussion: June 2020–March 2021
Sum of parts; we cover oral sex at eat (whereas with I suppose one could at least argue that gobble doesn't cover it). This is one of PaM's entries; he obsessively created loads of stuff about Islam and lesbians. "Especially a lesbian" in this definition also seems irrelevant to the term, just perhaps a general truth about sexual habits (or may well be wrong altogether). In Google Books I found a reference to "guys eating beaver", strengthening the idea that this is SoP. Equinox ◑ 22:05, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * and Bernd Brandes were literal cock gobblers, as was a disgruntled Indonesian gardener. There are, of course, also literal beaver eaters. --Lambiam 09:52, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Obviously entered by a sad individual. DonnanZ (talk) 21:12, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - TheDaveRoss  13:18, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * If this is confirmed as sufficiently a set phrase -- I scarcely wish to check -- then I would support keeping it. I think that hints buried at eat and beaver, that must be put together in the right combination, may not allow people to confidently understand what is meant when they encounter this expression, if that is what it is. Mihia (talk) 22:54, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I have heard or seen the phrase with the specific connotation that the eater is a lesbian, but not recently. Google books finds The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English with the hyphenated form beaver-eater and a gender-neutral definition.  An older work describes 'beaver eater' as a term for a wolverine, which eats Castor.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:40, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Added wolverine definition, so only delete the slang sense if the RFD says delete. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:57, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Google scholar(!) finds a use that sounds like a word in New Insights into Gendered Discursive Practices quoting a Facebook interaction between two teenage girls. Girl 1 writes on Facebook: "You don't know me".  Girl 2 replies: "I know you're a beaver eater".  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:57, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep The sexual meaning is probably dominant these days among the possible senses. Non-durable pages also refer to it as slang for French Canadians; that's worth following up.  Some commentaries on the novel Lolita mentions the term beaver eater appearing.  Others say it wasn't a double entendre when Nabokob wrote it 65 years ago.  If it's a borderline case for inclusion I can look for a durable quotation about this interpretation.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:35, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Added a few more uses of the sexual sense to the citation page. I think its inclusion in the Partridge Dictionary strongly supports the argument that it has become a set phrase, fitting into the pattern of synonymous terms like, or . – Einstein2 (talk) 10:53, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - Dentonius (my politics | talk) 16:14, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:02, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - not sum of parts (removed "especially a lesbian") SemperBlotto (talk) 15:08, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep, senses wolverine and Canadian aren't SOP. Sense cunnilinguist looks SOP-ish though. --幽霊四 (talk) 02:02, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 07:17, 3 March 2021 (UTC)