Talk:heavy

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See Special:PermanentLink/24549073. DCDuring TALK 23:01, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

When I was in Glasgow at the end of January I took the photograph seen to the right. Someone has scrawled the words "heavy filthy" into the dirt on the tailgate. I took the photograph as using the word heavy: to mean (presumably) very: isn't one I'm familiar with. It doesn't seem to be covered by any of the senses at our heavy entry either. It could be a Scottish usage - given that it is on a road vehicle I can't be certain where it was written, but the company that operates the lorry has a distribution centre less than 1.5 miles away as the crow flies from where I photographed it, it could even be purely Glaswegian. Thryduulf 15:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * lol, I don't think we accept things written on the back of a truck as reliable citations. Otherwise I wish my wife was this dirty would have an entry. --Rising Sun talk? contributions 10:46, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Why not? They are good examples of a specific type of language use. They're informal, usually terse and (attempting to be) witty, indeed the example you give is an idiomatic set phrase - why is this less valid than works written on other media? True they are not normally durably archived (by their very nature) but photographs of the inscriptions (for want of a better word) can be. Thryduulf 13:51, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Idiomatic, definitely. We do have an entry for woz ere, which is quite similar as something you generally don't find in books, so there's hope yet. --Rising Sun talk? contributions 22:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed a bgc and ggc search brings up quite a few durably archived reports of this exact phrase being used. Thryduulf 13:55, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed, there are some decent hits for that phrase. I might even add an entry. Thanks. But I'm not going to create an entry for clean me, at least because it isn't witty. --Rising Sun talk? contributions 22:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The use of heavy to mean "very" is fairly common on the Indian subcontinent.67.189.45.83 16:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that, I've added this sense at heavy, currently marked as just Indian English, I'll look again for Scottish usage. Thryduulf (talk) 17:04, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

*142lbs heavy
Mastering Eng: An Advanced Grammar for Non-native measure phrases can appear w non-compared adjectives: 5 feet tall. Is the measure phrase an argument of the adjective or an adjunct? Why is it that the markedness of *142lbs heavy disappears once the adjective is in the comparative (2 inches taller alongside 2lbs heavier) ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:24, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

X-heavy expression?
I'm not a native speaker, so this might be very nonstandart, but isn't there the expression(?) "X heavy" which would mean "focusing on X" or "containing a lot of X"? Similar to the missing article "action heavy". This seems to me to be worth adding, but I don't have sources. --178.202.123.101 16:01, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

hang heavy
what meaning is used in hang heavy? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:27, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Noun sense
What does 'heavy' mean in this excerpt?

Simplificationalizer (talk) 20:14, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * Randy, J & I drove to Chicago for the concert. I couldn't believe how straight the audience was... I was one of the heavies! Small contingent of drag queens, tho.


 * Compare the following adjective uses from the same work.
 * 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * Stayed at a friend of Jeffrey’s place & we 3 went to the Gold Coast, the heavy Chic S & M bar.
 * 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * During intermission a kid passed by me & said "Hi, Lou. When you going on stage?" I smiled like a greaser—didn't say nothin, I was too heavy.
 * 1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * You're really a heavy lady but you're still fucked-up.
 * --Simplificationalizer (talk) 13:06, 10 August 2023 (UTC)