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The erudite and hoity-toity amongst us deplore UD. As with any such open site, many entries are questionable. However, UD is often first to pick up on a neologism. The more entries that agree with one another and a preponderance of thumbs-up are pretty good indicators | |||
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I voted no, not because I'm erudite or hoity-toity*, but because if me and a couple of my like-minded friends decided to perpetrate the hoax that "splook" was a slang term for the genitalia of a penguin it would be easy to get it on there with several people apparently independently confirming it and in six months you would probably be posting here asking if anyone could help you out with citations for it. A quick browse through reveals that there are an awful lot of "questionable" entries and no way to determine whether they are a) real, b) mistaken or c) malicious hoaxes. In my view that makes it a bad reference source. (* Although I like to think of myself as reasonably erudite I think it's genetically impossible for a working-class lad from the Black Country to be hoity-toity.)This message has been edited. Last edited by: BobHale, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Been called a lot of things, but hoity-toity, never. I've never really used it. I start most lexicographical expeditions with dead-tree wordhoards, before moving on to Google and the A-H and M-W online dictionaries. But then I'm not that concerned with cutting edge coinages. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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I have found some helpful definitions there, having gone to look specifically for some word that I've heard on the street. Would I trust it completely? No - it's too variable. ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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Turns out I'm not so far "wrong" according to the Urban Dictionary which says
And thus neatly illustrates my point about anybody getting anything in. I cannot find a single internet reference to this word in anything like this sense. Virtually all of them refer to the computer command SPLook. Considering I made the word up this morning and only just thought to look it up (and I promise you I didn't enter it there myself), I think this comments adequately on the reliability of the UD as a reference source. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Incidentally here are the UD's first ten definitions for "penguin." There are 47 altogether and all of them have the same degree of plausibility as these. (Also worth noting that many of these have a good number of thumbs-ups.)
Does this strike you as in any way resembling an actual dictionary? Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.This message has been edited. Last edited by: BobHale, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Bob: Point well taken. You must have spent a while making it I should have added that when unsure it's wise to get confirmation from other sources, eg Sex DictionaryPenguin Blow This happens when a hooker offers to blow you for five dollars. Of course you accept the offer and remove your pants. She gets on her knees, ... asel00.tripod.com/id19.htmlThis message has been edited. Last edited by: dalehileman, | |||
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Thirty seconds with cut and paste and about a minute removing the bits that didn't paste well like the names and the thumbs up/down symbols. And about five minutes eliminating things from the google hits for "splook". "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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I'm with Bob on this one. | |||
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