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Latest comment: 13 years ago10 comments6 people in discussion
How do we mark this? Semantically its meaning is obvious. Grammatically, I would think that most would view it as not archaic, but wrong. DCDuringTALK15:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Other "lemmings" seem to mark this as the pronoun usage. The example I put in the entry of "..six eggs are plenty.." I placed under the pronoun because that's what I find elsewhere. (I'm aware that that doesn't make it right though ;-) ). -- ALGRIF talk17:12, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
"Six eggs are plenty" is not in the RFV'd sense, though. Did you look at the results in the search I linked to? Most of them are using "plenty" to mean "plentiful, abundant". —RuakhTALK18:07, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Century Dictionary lists plenty as both noun and adjective, with the adj being derived from the elliptical use of the noun, and carrying the meaning of "being in abundance, plentiful". It's marked as "now chiefly colloquial", I would venture (archaic,colloquial)?. Leasnam19:17, 6 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 10 years ago10 comments7 people in discussion
Pronoun. There is a noun PoS section with definition and usage example I can't distinguish from those offered for the purported pronoun. DCDuringTALK12:19, 2 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
I'm not sure what to classify the first use as. It's the same conundrum we have with lots of (which just happens to be a redirect...)
For the second use, that seems to be an adjective or noun describing the subject through use of the copula equating "six eggs" to "plenty".
However, there seems to be plenty (pun intended) wrong with our coverage of the word. There are constructions like "there is plenty to go around" and "six eggs is plenty" instead of "six eggs are plenty" that our current entry does not serve to adequately describe. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 09:12, 31 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Also, some linguists would use the existence of lotsa as justification for an entry for lots off. Similarly, plentya is readily attestable in books and provides a justification for plenty of.
This is the kind of entry that is worth the work of consulting references, getting examples, and facing some dispute about what one does. It's also not as daunting as trying to improve or repair an entry for a common preposition or a modal or light verb. DCDuringTALK16:44, 31 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Numerous dictionaries treat it as both a noun and a pronoun. I have just added a usage note with references, but also redefined the pronoun to avoid duplicating the definitional information. - -sche(discuss)19:07, 28 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
Keep pronoun. "I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe" does not seem to be a noun use of "plenty" to me, although I am not sure it is pronoun either. The treatment of "plenty" should be compared to the treatment of "enough", since they seem to play similar grammatical roles. --- I have in part returned the definition to the pronoun: "More than enough"; this definition does not seem to belong to the noun part of speech, unlike "A more than adequate amount". --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:14, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Re "I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe": I think it is an adjective or (or possibly an adverb) in this sentence. --WikiTiki8914:11, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I have added the less-than-standard intensifier (adverb) sense and a determiner section with two nonstandard determiner senses (one for countable nouns, the other for uncountable). DCDuringTALK13:13, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Enough behaves differently from virtually any other word. It is mentioned more than 20 times in CGEL (2002). I don't know how to help users understand its all aspects of its use using lexical entries of reasonable length for a dictionary. They may have to learn unconsciously, from reading and listening. DCDuring (talk) 16:30, 27 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
There were plenty more who didn’t agree
Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Attributive use of the noun works semantically, but that seems like a strain on the fused-head role of more. The adverb definitions fit, though the wording is not perfect. DCDuring (talk) 16:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
Adjective: more than enough; ample
Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
