Talk:strawing

I don't like the quote from London Labour and the London Poor, because it is included in quotation marks. I demand three better ones.--New WT User Girl (talk) 21:40, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August 2018

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strawing

Rfv-sense: (obsolete, slang) The sale of straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Equinox (talk • contribs) was probably drunk when making this entry. --New WT User Girl (talk) 21:28, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

I had just got home from selling "straws" outside Camden station. (Definition is from Chambers 1908.) Equinox ◑ 21:31, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Cool story, bro. Cite it up. --New WT User Girl (talk) 21:34, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Seems to have been used only by Henry Mayhew (added one citation, which also uses "strawer"), and then picked up by dictionaries. Equinox ◑ 21:45, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

So WT trumps Chambers once again. w00t. --New WT User Girl (talk) 21:48, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 02:42, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 22:35, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Moved to straw, since some of the citations are verb usages and thus "strawing" isn't a noun there. Equinox ◑ 22:19, 21 August 2018 (UTC)