Talk:charidee

'Conspicuous charity, especially as part of a TV promotion, or of an otherwise pointless exercise' This is not an accurate definition. The word is simply a way of saying 'charity', with mocking connotations for the sincerity and integrity of the person involved in giving the charity. The charity itself need not be inherently pointless. The word comes from the comedy character DJ Mike Smash, a pastiche of a certain type of middle aged DJ that dominated British radio in the 1980s, never slow to mention his humanitarian work ('I do a lot of work for charidee mate, but I don't like to talk about it')  99.255.137.57 19:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I urge the other editor to explain his/her decision to delete the correct definition 99.255.137.57 00:29, 18 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Wiktionary definitions need to be attested to be included when they are in dispute. Rather than overwriting the previous definition, you could have gone through our requests for verification process, marking the old definition for verification, after which it would have been removed or rewritten if not verified. This attestation (see WT:CFI) generally requires three illustrative uses. WT:QUOTE demonstrates how to choose and format your quotations; you might also look at another properly attested entry, like steel magnolia. In this case, however, I am not sure there is a lot of difference between your wording and the current one. I guess you disagree with the "pointless exercise" part, but maybe we can just tone that down, since you do still say that it has "mocking connotations for the sincerity." I did add a "jocular" tag and the information about the Mid-Atlantic origin, neither of which were really definition material, but belonged in the context tag and etymology. Why don't you see if you can come up with a change to the definition that doesn't completely remove the meaning? And perhaps you could add some quotations to attest the word at the same time. Dominic·t 22:36, 19 September 2010 (UTC)