Talk:stevvon

RFV discussion: June 2018–February 2019
Searches for "stevvons", "stevvoning", "stevvoned", "stevvon'd" turn up just enough hits that one (consolidated?) verb definition-line is probably citable, although several of the places the word occurs are dialect dictionaries, whose usexes (if not direct quotations of real people or works) don't count. - -sche (discuss) 06:30, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It's really a slightly more modern dialectal (spelling) variant of . It's listed as an Alternative form there Leasnam (talk) 12:05, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't (and don't) want to RFV steven until I can make an effort to cite its various senses and find out which I can and can't find citations for, but ultimately it too needs to be checked. - -sche (discuss) 20:51, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * In any case consider glossing as obsolete unless we have good evidence that modern northerners have a clue what this means. Equinox ◑ 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Even combining all the senses and reducing this to an alt form, it only has 2 citations for the verb and 1 for the noun. Several old dictionaries, including the EDD and dictionaries of specific dialects, have usexes (of "stevvon[e]d oot", etc), but CFI doesn't allow made-up examples of how a word could be used. I'm about to RFV almost all the senes of the "lemma" spelling, steven, because I can't find citations for any of them except the first one ("the voice"). - -sche (discuss) 07:12, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've added a third cite for the verb . It comes from the Recontres section of The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood, which begins at page 1. The cite is on page 67 here [], so it is not a usex. Leasnam (talk) 03:53, 26 December 2018 (UTC)


 * The verb passes. The noun still only has one citation. Kiwima (talk) 23:49, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ...and that citation isn't even a use, but seemingly a made-up usex:
 * 1876, F. K. Robinson, A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby:
 * Stevvon, force; loudness. &apos;Your clock strikes with a desperate stevvon.&apos;
 * I've deleted the noun section as RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 17:32, 16 February 2019 (UTC)