Talk:leapful

RFV discussion: September–October 2019
Rfv-sense "a basketful".

I can find no cites to support this definition, which was imported from Webster. Kiwima (talk) 00:08, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * This can be found as "lepful" and "leepful" in Middle English, and we have leap as an obsolete word for "basket", from Middle English "leep"/"lepe"/"lep". I wonder if this is extrapolation from those. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:08, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * W. R. Cooper's The Wycliffe New Testament (1388): An Edition in Modern Spelling (2002), p. 37, has "And all ate and were fulfilled, and they took that that was left of relifs seven leepsful. And they that ate were four thousand of men," with leepsful glossed as "Baskets, hampers". That is, of course, a different spelling, and there's been some discussion of whether "modernizations" of Middle English works should be considered English or not, besides which it's the only occurrence I spotted. It seems like this probably didn't make it out of Middle English, except as extrapolation in dictionaries, as you say. - -sche (discuss) 03:05, 1 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Webster very cheekily modernised some ME spellings (and even respelled the likes of Shakespeare), so we should probably relegate this to ME under whatever spellings are actually attested. I'm afraid I added a few of these, over-trustingly: we will iron them out over time. Equinox ◑ 00:16, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:58, 3 October 2019 (UTC)