Talk:busy

I believe that filled with people is a definition of busy. I could be wrong, but if not, I'd like someone to add it. — This unsigned comment was added by Warr40 (talk • contribs) at 2010-01-15T23:11:23.

•  Done: Adjective sense 1. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 19:28, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

RFM discussion: July 2018–December 2023

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busy

The two verb senses are bad IMHO. The first should be at busy oneself, I think, since it is always reflexive AFAIK. The second one doesn't sound right at all -- "He busied her" isn't something I've heard. Is that real at all? 69.255.250.219 02:36, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Support the move of verb sense 1 to busy oneself. Send verb sense 2 to RFV. - excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 05:46, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

• Keep and label verb sense 1 per Al-Muqanna below. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 19:15, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

It's not purely reflexive, so I oppose the move for sense 1. Examples: "I will […] busy him with my affairs till he forgets his own" [1]; "And what has been busying you?" [2]; " […] he busied you with other chores" [3]. Rarer than I thought, since I've heard e.g. "sorry for busying you" in real life, but it's a thing. Sense 2 I'm unfamiliar with. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 23:51, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

[[busy oneself]] might be a good hard redirect to the appropriate sense of busy, which would benefit from {{lb|en|usually reflexive}} and corresponding usage examples. DCDuring (talk) 14:46, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

The sense at [[busy]] should remain, whether or not there is a separate lemma entry for busy oneself. DCDuring (talk) 14:48, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Redirecting busy oneself and a label makes sense, agreed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 16:10, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

•  Done: DCDuring created the redirect and added the label to sense 1 as he suggested and I've sent sense 2 to RFV. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 19:41, 11 December 2023 (UTC)