Help me submit 'crunk' to the OED

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We need a lucid definition and, of course, citations.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

So, did you watch Yentob last night, too? ;-)

You have to write a book with the word in it, and get it published, first. Didn't you pay attention? And the next edition isn't until 2030.

(Yentob irritates me, but that was a fantastic programme!)

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 19 December 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

He is an uber-dick (submit that). Does an Outkast CD booklet count as 'published'? I wonder...

There's an online OED, so we could get it into that?

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

SINKER TO THREAD! We *need* cockfarmer in there.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's do this! I got 'knob-hound' into the Nu St4tesm4n, will that work?

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

He is PANTS!!! Cause aparently that has made it in.

All you have to have is examples within printed media.

Man, some of those dictionary people, though. What freaks! The mentalist linguist in Broadmoor! The basis for Ratty (HSA loved Ratty and was so happy to find out he was a real person) in the Wind In The Willows! (and his rowing working class wommins!)

I want a scriptorium.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Friday, 19 December 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

All you have to have is examples within printed media.

God, they'd better step up! All sorts of shiznit gets printed now. This needs investigating. Oxford is still crazy as fuck. The whole language is one madman's delusion, of course. Round here we sneer at you guys for buying it while communicating solely in brays and whinnies.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, they keep things on file, because I'm working on correlating all the "santorum" usage. They've had stuff on file for over 150 years.

― Catty (Catty), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

And the next edition isn't until 2030.

the chief editor reckoned it would be 2040. if at all. they are trying to decide whether it will be hard copy published at all.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That's depressing, I would hate to have to rely on only a computer to look something up.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wordspy.com/ might be a good first step

― maura (maura), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the link, Maura!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing about hard copy editions is they are always about 50 yrs out of date, and the next 15/20 yrs is spent trying to update the previous edition, and then updating the......well you see.

this is why i asked him if he found his job depressing as it was, in a sense, futile.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 19 December 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yentob doesn't sound like a real name. I think he's probably really called Alan Botney and he just reversed his name to make him sound more interesting.

cockfarmer should be in the OED. Wobs should too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 20 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

this is why i asked him if he found his job depressing as it was, in a sense, futile.

Is it really futile? I mean, to find an end is. But as plenty of words die as much as new ones are born, and as it is hard to tell what will be lasting and well-used, there's nothing wrong with trying to approximately stay on top of the language.

Btw, anyone remember the Black Adder episode where Samuel Johnson (played by Robbie Coltrane) visits the Prince of Wales and Black Adder keeps on speaking in overly obfuscatory language?

― , Saturday, 20 December 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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