Talk:busy

I believe that filled with people is a definition of busy. I could be wrong, but if not, I'd like someone to add it.
 * ✅: Adjective sense 1. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (ta&middot;co) 19:28, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

RFM discussion: July 2018–December 2023
The two verb senses are bad IMHO. The first should be at busy oneself, I think, since it is always reflexive AFAIK. The second one doesn't sound right at all -- "He busied her" isn't something I've heard. Is that real at all? 69.255.250.219 02:36, 29 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Support the move of verb sense 1 to busy oneself. Send verb sense 2 to RFV. - excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 05:46, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep and label verb sense 1 per Al-Muqanna below. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (ta&middot;co) 19:15, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It's not purely reflexive, so I oppose the move for sense 1. Examples: "I will busy him with my affairs till he forgets his own" ; "And what has been busying you?" ; " he busied you with other chores" . Rarer than I thought, since I've heard e.g. "sorry for busying you" in real life, but it's a thing. Sense 2 I'm unfamiliar with. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 23:51, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * [[busy oneself]] might be a good hard redirect to the appropriate sense of busy, which would benefit from and corresponding usage examples. DCDuring (talk) 14:46, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The sense at [[busy]] should remain, whether or not there is a separate lemma entry for busy oneself. DCDuring (talk) 14:48, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirecting busy oneself and a label makes sense, agreed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 16:10, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅: DCDuring created the redirect and added the label to sense 1 as he suggested and I've sent sense 2 to RFV. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (ta&middot;co) 19:41, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2023–July 2024

 * Discussion continued from 

Rfv-sense (verb): "to rush somebody". OP at RFM (an IP) said this doesn't sound right at all -- "He busied her" isn't something I've heard. Is that real at all? &mdash; excarnateSojourner (ta&middot;co) 19:38, 11 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Failed+removed Denazz (talk) 22:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)