Talk:blake

RFV discussion: February–March 2022
Rfv-sense: verb. OED has Middle English only. I found two uses in EEBO which seem to mean "to blacken" (variant spelling of verb):. This, that and the other (talk) 03:00, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed - not sure if anyone else has looked, but I'm confident this doesn't exist This, that and the other (talk) 01:17, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

RFV discussion: April–June 2024
Rfv-sense "Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue." and "Bleak, cold; bare, naked." I can only cite the middle sense, "yellow" (although "pale" could plausibly be folded into it). The OED has one use which they put under their "pale" sense but admit is ambiguous and could equally just be an instance of the common (old) use of blake as another spelling of black. Noticed this because I was checking for whether the redlinked/ACCEL-greenlinked "blaker, blakest" forms were attested because I was about to create them, and I noticed that in fact none of the comparative, superlative, or base forms seem to be common. - -sche (discuss) 16:39, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 01:28, 5 June 2024 (UTC)