Talk:skeeved

RFV discussion: September–October 2018


This is listed as an adjective, borrowed from Italian. But this looks like the past participle of the verb (which is derived from Italian). Both of the attestations cited use "(get/be) skeeved by", and that passive voice verb form is by far most common in Google Books. The only non-passive forms I found were a handful of copula + skeeved, as in "I feel skeeved out." Cnilep (talk) 06:10, 13 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Added one for "even more skeeved", one for "how skeeved he was". I've personally never heard anything like "you are skeeving me". Equinox ◑ 15:43, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * It is out there: "All right, now you're skeeving me." (Wilson c. 2018, self published on Google Books) Compare also: "I hate going in my parents' room. It skeeves me out." (Luper 2007) Cnilep (talk) 01:10, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I should have said, though, that "more skeeved" definitely sounds like an adjective. Cnilep (talk) 01:12, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The skeeved by citations and the transitive uses are clear evidence supporting a verb PoS section, IMO. DCDuring (talk) 01:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * It would be nice to find graded usage of skeeved being used attributively to clinch the case for an adjective PoS section. DCDuring (talk) 01:58, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The 2002, 2006, 2009, and 2016 quotes all look adjectival to me. In addition, I found a cite for "unskeeved" (on the unskeeved citations page) I am calling this one cited. Kiwima (talk) 21:13, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * IMO, the bys have it, clearly marking three of the six cites as using the past participle for passive use. I have moved those citations to the Verb PoS on that page, but they also support the first of the transitive definitions of the lemma skeeve. DCDuring (talk) 22:10, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 10:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)