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Allegedly English for "masturbator". There are three quotations in the entry but they do not attest the meaning, AFAICT. Take the 1st one: "leave the rest for the direct market and all us continuity-porn fappers": how do you know "fapper" does not mean "watcher"? The 2nd one is almost entirely worthless for meaning extraction, IMHO: "Best I could do. Z (just doin' my part for the happy fappers)". The 3rd one appears to use the word to mean something else, but I am not sure: "We need to store the robot with latex tubes out of the pumps (or else they become 'fappers', even after a few weeks". --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:12, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- I also find the third quote confusing, but I think the first and second are acceptable citations. The etymology of fapper (fap + -er) might help convince you that its use in the first and second does indeed mean "masturbator". The context of the second quote is also relevant—it seems to be a discussion of a celebrity sex video.
- In any case, I've added three more quotations that are clearer. Hopefully they should be sufficient. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:43, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- (after edit conflict) I think attestation should work without reference to etymology or surface morphology. One should be able to assign meaning by looking at the sentence after replacing the word being attested with "X". So the first sentence would be "leave the rest for the direct market and all us continuity-porn X"; from this I need to be able to tell the meaning of X. Otherwise, you are using the attesting quotations not so much to attest the meaning of the term (which you have already guessed from the morphology) as to show the term is actually used in some meaning. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:46, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- That's silly. No English reader of the sentences "A rook or a queen can move horizontally. Queens are more powerful pieces then rooks.", no matter how ignorant of chess, will fail to understand what "queens" and "rooks" refer to. If you know the verb "to fap", then "fapper" is obvious and should be taken in consideration when reading cites.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:41, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
- Later: The quotations you have added are good. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- (after edit conflict) I think attestation should work without reference to etymology or surface morphology. One should be able to assign meaning by looking at the sentence after replacing the word being attested with "X". So the first sentence would be "leave the rest for the direct market and all us continuity-porn X"; from this I need to be able to tell the meaning of X. Otherwise, you are using the attesting quotations not so much to attest the meaning of the term (which you have already guessed from the morphology) as to show the term is actually used in some meaning. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:46, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- RFV passed. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC)