Talk:snicklefritz
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Any takers? Needs some cleanup (and a headword) if OK. SemperBlotto (talk) 20:54, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hmm, there's Snicklefritz Leasnam (talk) 20:56, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
- I can find that definition in plenty of word lists, but no actual usages. One word list mentioned that it was local to Pennsylvania, so that would shrink the field quite a bit. Mostly, I find it used as a term of endearment for a child. Also, a strain of marijuana. Kiwima (talk) 02:56, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- p.s. "schnicklefritz" seems to be the more common spelling, and I can find one supportive citation for that:
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- Kiwima (talk) 19:14, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- p.s. "schnicklefritz" seems to be the more common spelling, and I can find one supportive citation for that:
- There are several instances of Schnicklefritz on Usenet, but they all seem to be mentions of it as a German or Pennsylvania German term, or references to it as a nickname or name (of a cat, baby, etc). Through Issuu, a few magazines can be found where it appears as a nickname. The nickname might meet CFI. - -sche (discuss) 23:14, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
- Do we include nicknames (although I think it is more a term of endearment)? When researching this, I looked for other common terms of endearment, and we do not include those. For example, honey bun has the pastry, but not the term of endearment. Kiwima (talk) 00:01, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- We do have sweetie, sweetie pie, etc, but the uses of Schnicklefritz that I saw weren't like "sweetie", they were (nick)names (which people signed as, or called others), like "Bubba". - -sche (discuss) 05:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Certainly, there are a number of uses as a nickname, but I also found a number where it was used by someone who was calling a child "snicklefritz" affectionately, when they knew the child's name to be something else. Kiwima (talk) 06:26, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- We do have sweetie, sweetie pie, etc, but the uses of Schnicklefritz that I saw weren't like "sweetie", they were (nick)names (which people signed as, or called others), like "Bubba". - -sche (discuss) 05:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- Do we include nicknames (although I think it is more a term of endearment)? When researching this, I looked for other common terms of endearment, and we do not include those. For example, honey bun has the pastry, but not the term of endearment. Kiwima (talk) 00:01, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
- There are several instances of Schnicklefritz on Usenet, but they all seem to be mentions of it as a German or Pennsylvania German term, or references to it as a nickname or name (of a cat, baby, etc). Through Issuu, a few magazines can be found where it appears as a nickname. The nickname might meet CFI. - -sche (discuss) 23:14, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
- On Google Books, the spelling Kiwima mentions (Schnicklefritz) is easily attested as a nickname of sorts. I suppose those are includable, a la "Bubba". (And on Issuu, Snicklefritz might be attested as the same kind of thing.) I suppose the entry should be moved and reformatted, which I may do soon. - -sche (discuss) 18:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks to some impressive citation-finding by Kiwima, this now has two cited senses. (I rolled sense 1, which had only two citations from the same author, into sense 2, from which it was not very distinct.) - -sche (discuss) 02:36, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Anagrams
[edit]I killed the "Anagrams" section, as they were alternate spellings, not anagrams. "Frickinzeits" is an anagram of snickelfritz. Somebody doesn't know what an Anagram is. MeriKen (talk) 05:21, 18 December 2022 (UTC)