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Wiktionary:Tea room Apr 3rd 2012, 06:11 Undo revision 16596921 by Ruakh (talk) reinstated as the deleted query seems not to have reached destination mentioned ← Older revision Revision as of 06:11, 3 April 2012 Line 1,828: Line 1,828:       I've created a page for [[doust]]. The problem is that I couldn't find it in any online dictionaries (except [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/doust The Free Dictionary], but their definition - "to punch" - seems to be wrong). All the definitions of I found came from Victorian collections of [[West Country]] slang and Victorian mining handbooks. None of these cared about pronunciation or etymology, and they all have senses that the other dictionaries don't (one of which - "to dust" - I can't attest, though given that I can attest "to separate dust from ore", it seems likely). Can anyone with access to a more definitive dictionary (presumably British) make sure the definitions are correct? [[User:Smurrayinchester|Smurrayinchester]] ([[User talk:Smurrayinchester|talk]]) 14:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)   I've created a page for [[doust]]. The problem is that I couldn't find it in any online dictionaries (except [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/doust The Free Dictionary], but their definition - "to punch" - seems to be wrong). All the definitions of I found came from Victorian collections of [[West Country]] slang and Victorian mining handbooks. None of these cared about pronunciation or etymology, and they all have senses that the other dictionaries don't (one of which - "to dust" - I can't attest, though given that I can attest "to separate dust from ore", it seems likely). Can anyone with access to a more definitive dictionary (presumably British) make sure the definitions are correct? [[User:Smurrayinchester|Smurrayinchester]] ([[User talk:Smurrayinchester|talk]]) 14:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)   +   + == [[ladies who lunch]] ==   +   + I was surprised to see this had been deleted. Wikipedia has a somewhat over-prescriptive version of the phrase and it's certainly not a new phrase as suggested by the deleter. I would say that it arose here in England around the mid-1990s. What is the mechanism for having it undeleted? [[User:Saga City|S a g a C i t y]] ([[User talk:Saga City|talk]]) 16:25, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

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