Talk:gamer

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Adjective
gamer
 * 1) Comparative of game; more willing to participate.

There is no comparative form "gamer" of the adjective "game." --Connel MacKenzie 05:28, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Restored. Found in Google Books: "This little chap's even gamer nor t'other one.". Equinox ◑ 15:35, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Video games
Just a historical note: I didn't see "gamer" for players of video games until relatively recently (perhaps circa 2000). The high-street UK video games magazines of the '80s and '90s did not seem to use the term. It was "players" instead. Equinox ◑ 15:40, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Hmm, never mind. Maybe I'm wrong. Just found some counterexamples: . Equinox ◑ 15:42, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Archaic sense
There is an archaic sense not listed here. I'm not sure what, some kind of container or storage building? The Tempest, act 4, scene 1:


 * Earth's increase, foison plenty,
 * Barns and gamers never empty;
 * Vines with clust'ring bunches growing;
 * Plants with goodly burden bowing;
 * Spring come to you at the farthest,
 * In the very end of harvest!

-- Jim Henry 2602:306:3AAA:B8B0:89C9:2846:7E6E:D378 19:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Or maybe "gamer" here is a scanno in this Gutenberg etext for "garners".


 * Yes, see garner: it's a granary. Equinox ◑ 03:41, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Lots of etymology here:
http://www.acriticalhit.com/origin-of-gamer/ —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:17, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: June–July 2021
Added today: "(pejorative, internet slang) A person with racist or bigoted views." Certainly video gamers get accused of this, but I've never seen it as a separate sense of the word. Equinox ◑ 17:54, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This isn't really pejorative, it's more just a meme. Like referring to historical figures as "le epic gamer XD", or events as "heated gamer moments". See, .__Gamren (talk) 22:32, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * See also "gamer word". I think it's mostly used attributively. Colin M (talk) 20:42, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It looks like its more someone who is cynical and snarky than someone specifically racist or bigoted. Kiwima (talk) 23:12, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 10:58, 12 July 2021 (UTC)