Talk:ripe

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ripe

"Intoxicated" sense - is that regional?

Noun - really?

Verb? Really? You mean ripen, surely?

--Connel MacKenzie 12:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I think the "intoxicated" sense is archaic; Shakespeare uses it, and modern editors footnote it. I also think Shakespeare uses the "ripen" sense, but I'm not sure. —Ruakh_TALK 15:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

General question: are we still marking things not used in 100 years with {{obsolete}}? --Connel MacKenzie 17:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

"Intoxicated" sense RFV passed — The Tempest is a well-known work, so we don't need any other cites — and other senses RFV failed. (At some point I might set about tracking down a Shakespearean use of the verb sense "to ripen", in which case I'll re-add it.) —Ruakh_TALK 17:55, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requests for deletion - kept

Kept. See archived discussion of June 2008. 09:25, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

RFC discussion: May 2007

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ripe

Redundant senses, ambiguous translation section. --Connel MacKenzie 12:29, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

seuxally mature; nubile

i read a book once where some bullies convinced a girl to say that she was "ripe" which i understood to mean "sexually receptive; ready for sex". I htink it was Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams. —Soap— 14:27, 27 June 2020 (UTC)