Talk:cold spell

RFD discussion: January–February 2021

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cold spell

cold + spell should cover it Alexfromiowa (talk) 23:46, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

• Am I right in saying Alex from Iowa is WF? DonnanZ (talk) 09:02, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

• You're clearly no fool, Donnanz. Your gateleg table still working out for you? Alexfromiowa (talk) 10:12, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

• Keep as "spell" has multiple meanings. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:36, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

  Indeed, it has, as does cold. Should we then list, accordingly, corresponding different senses of cold spell, like here, where it does not mean a period, but, by the figurative uses of the magical sense of spell and sense 3 of the adjective cold, “an effect or influence causing a discomforting sensation”?  --Lambiam 14:32, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

• Keep. There are lemmings, synonyms (which aren't being challenged), and a quote to boot. Not all two-word terms should be regarded as SoP in the Wiktionary sense, coldspell would still be a sum of parts as a compound, but wrong. The gateleg table is doing its job well, and will probably outlast me. DonnanZ (talk) 12:41, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
• Cold spell is also used figuratively for a period of poor performance, an antonym of hot streak. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:44, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

  Added the figurative sense. – Einstein2 (talk) 13:23, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

• Keep, I would say. PUC – 17:09, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
• There are also hot spells and warm spells, and even wet spells...so the definition with spell = "period of time" is definitely SOP. Leasnam (talk) 20:58, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

RFD-kept — surjection ⟨??⟩ 16:04, 6 February 2021 (UTC)