Talk:culve

RFV discussion: April–July 2016
Definition: There is a single quote in the entry from a poem by George Herbert, which I can't seem to locate, but so far I haven't found a scrap of evidence corroborating anything in this entry, nor anything about the derived sense added at culver.
 * 1) To effect the laxative properties of cheese.

There are thousands of hits on Google Books to sort through yet, but this smells strongly of a hoax. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:40, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorting through many of those thousands of hits, and they all seem to be scannos - mostly for calve, but sometimes solve, etc. Kiwima (talk) 01:53, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes. I did the same, with the same results. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:02, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I doubt if this is verifiable. OED doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the word. A search of the book The Complete English Poems (1991, reprinted 2004) by George Herbert turned up neither a poem entitled Of Purgatory or the word culve. — SMUconlaw (talk) 13:50, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Speedy, based on the negative evidence? This doesn't look like it should get 30 days, IMO. DCDuring TALK 14:39, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Failed – deleted. — SMUconlaw (talk) 19:44, 25 July 2016 (UTC)