Talk:orange up

This is certainly interesting, although I have deleted that word from the line at the top of the entry as it is POV.

Do "green up", "blue up", etc, also exist? Is "orange up" a particular coinage, or can "orange" be replace by any colour? If the latter, I wonder if the entry might more properly belong under "up" as a special usage; something along the lines of this:

Adverb
up


 * 1) (preceded by the name of a colour): Used to form verbs meaning "to enhance by adding more of the specified colour".
 * 1) (preceded by the name of a colour): Used to form verbs meaning "to enhance by adding more of the specified colour".

Otherwise we will need "turquoise up", "vermilion up", "sky-blue pink up"; you get the idea... I'm not against these if this is what it takes and don't have a strong view either way. I'm just thinking aloud (or rather through my typing fingers) here.

What do others think? &mdash; Paul G 09:17, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * I think this article can go. Dictionaries are for describing lexicon, not for describing grammatical rules. Anything relevant can go in the article for up. Non-idiomatic phrases do not belong. &mdash; Hippietrail 12:24, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

orange up
As per the talk page, this is just a combination of the words "orange" and "up", although I'm not sure which meaning of "up" applies here. Anyway, if this is allowed, we could have red up, blue up, mauve up etc., which is clearly unnecessary. Interplanet Janet 21:34, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I have added orange:. up: has a sense "thoroughly, completely" that would seem to apply. DCDuring TALK 22:36, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Also grease up, oil up have the same meaning of up. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 22:05, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, I think, after DCDuring's additions. DAVilla 17:19, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

RFD failed. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)