Talk:christen

RFV discussion: May 2020

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christen

Rfv-sense: (informal) To urinate onto or into something. I always thought this was a figurative, and pretty vulgar, extension of the "to baptise" sense. Is it really a stand-alone sense? --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:22, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 22:15, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

There are any number of other figurative extensions of christening—"christen with blood", "christen with sweat", etc—and I'm not sure why urination would need a separate sense. All but one of the quotes added have to specify urination explicitly so it's not inferred from christen as such. I would suggest extending the sense to something like "(figurative) To douse in". —Nizolan ^(talk) 23:13, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Good suggestion. I have reworded the definition. Kiwima (talk) 01:39, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed (and amended) Kiwima (talk) 21:39, 11 May 2020 (UTC)