Talk:blue-balling
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Rfv-sense: "Sexually frustrated".
Might have something to do with incels. DCDuring (talk) 18:15, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- Well spotted: to "blue-ball" is to sexually frustrate, so someone who is "blue-balling" would be doing the frustrating, not being frustrated (apparently). Equinox ◑ 20:18, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- Unless it somehow reversed its meaning in incel world. DCDuring (talk) 00:23, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ergativity/lability is very plausible here, influenced by ballin'. This, that and the other (talk) 02:36, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- It also seems to be a general/productive colloquial(?) thing for "[X]ing" to be able to mean doing/experiencing X, e.g. redshirts are redshirting, we're Wiktionarying and interneting and so on. So it's plausible. But I can't find cites. - -sche (discuss) 03:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ergativity/lability is very plausible here, influenced by ballin'. This, that and the other (talk) 02:36, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- Unless it somehow reversed its meaning in incel world. DCDuring (talk) 00:23, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Failed/removed Newfiles (talk) 22:43, 3 October 2024 (UTC)