Talk:powder monkey

RFV-sense failed
See this discussion. — Beobach 19:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

powder monkey
Rfv-sense, a child below the age of 10 that is learning how to ski or snowboard. I couldn't find this sense, but there seems to be some usage regarding a ski newbie.--Dmol 06:36, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * You should probably just merge them. I don't think anyone would revert such a change. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:59, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I've changed it to a skiing newbie, as there was no evidence of it being restricted to any certain age. --Dmol 05:44, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * That is not the usage I have understood on the ski hills of VT, around here it means an avid powder skier, one who seeks out the powder. usage here and here corroborate that without being useful as citations.  I have never heard or seen it used to mean someone new to skiing. -  06:01, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. I've added the sense that TheDaveRoss mentions (and has further explained on my talk-page), with several quotations. (It took me a while to make sense of this; I hadn't recognized that different skiers/snowboarders might prefer different types of snow, so I kept trying to understand it as describing some level of ability or interest or something like that. It took a bit of a paradigm-shift for me to grok what I was reading.) —Ruakh TALK 22:10, 7 November 2010 (UTC)