Talk:kaypoh

RFV discussion: January 2019
sense only: kaypoh, kaypohs (verb forms), whole entry: kaypohed, kaypohing

The term is used mainly as a noun or adjective. Verb forms are rarely used and have low hits on Google. KevinUp (talk) 17:47, 2 January 2019 (UTC)


 * This should be moved to RFV. -Sonofcawdrey (talk) 03:13, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved from RFD to RFV. KevinUp (talk) 06:31, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 06:43, 3 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Cited for kaypoh. How about kaypohs, kaypohed, kaypohing? Do we assume that the other forms exist as well? We do have this: Category:English defective verbs. KevinUp (talk) 06:59, 3 January 2019 (UTC)


 * I think we should only declare verbs to be defective if there is evidence for their defectiveness; a lack of evidence of completeness is not enough. --Lambiam 07:31, 3 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Does anyone know whether Singlish verbs are conjugated? Pinging for comment. See also pa chew cheng. KevinUp (talk) 07:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Someone will have to do some Googling and see if such verbs are conjugated. My sense is that it's erratic – a few people might conjugate them (especially if trying to be humorous in writing), while most would probably just use the root form when speaking regardless of the context. — SGconlaw (talk) 08:41, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Here are some I spotted:
 * kaypohing, kaypoing:, , (the latter two are mentions only, and could be noun forms – I can't see the full text).
 * kaypohed', kaypoed:, (the latter is probably not regarded as durable).
 * Didn't really see any others. I didn't do searches for kaypoh, kaypo, kaypohs and kaypos as there are likely to be too many results for me to sift through right now, and most of them will probably be noun uses. Searches can be conducted on digitized Singaporean newspapers at NewspaperSG. — SGconlaw (talk) 09:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Added one durable quotation each for kaypohed and kaypohing (both are written by the same author). KevinUp (talk) 13:04, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I think the quotations should be moved to the main lemma kaypoh. Quotations are not usually added to inflected forms. — SGconlaw (talk) 14:28, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

It looks to me as if t his is RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 18:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)