Talk:ripe

ripe
"Intoxicated" sense - is that regional?

Noun - really?

Verb? Really? You mean ripen, surely?

--Connel MacKenzie 12:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I think the "intoxicated" sense is archaic; Shakespeare uses it, and modern editors footnote it. I also think Shakespeare uses the "ripen" sense, but I'm not sure. —RuakhTALK 15:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


 * General question: are we still marking things not used in 100 years with ? --Connel MacKenzie 17:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

"Intoxicated" sense RFV passed — The Tempest is a well-known work, so we don't need any other cites — and other senses RFV failed. (At some point I might set about tracking down a Shakespearean use of the verb sense "to ripen", in which case I'll re-add it.) —Ruakh TALK 17:55, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Requests for deletion - kept
Kept. See archived discussion of June 2008. 09:25, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

RFC discussion: May 2007
Redundant senses, ambiguous translation section. --Connel MacKenzie 12:29, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

seuxally mature; nubile
i read a book once where some bullies convinced a girl to say that she was "ripe" which i understood to mean "sexually receptive; ready for sex". I htink it was Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams. — Soap — 14:27, 27 June 2020 (UTC)