The defunct

[nq:1]the defunct Does this expression have the meaning of the dead person, the deceased, etc. nowadays?[/nq]
The meaning is somewhat broader nowadays. "Defunct," the adjective, means "no longer in existence." A retail establishment, a corporation, a scbool, even a country, has become defunct if it no longer exists. The Soviet Union, having broken into its constituent republics, is defunct. So

[nq:1]the defunct Does this expression have the meaning of the dead person, the deceased, etc. nowadays?[/nq]
MWCD10 establishes the "nowadays" to have started in 1599. It was noticed then that the dead had difficulties in functioning.
Skitt (in SF Bay Area) http://www.geocities.co

[nq:1]Very much NOT defunct.Does 'funct' have too much of a whiff of odiousness about it?[/nq]
John W Hall (Email Removed)
Cochrane, Alberta, Canada.
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[nq:2]the defunct Does this expression have the meaning of the dead person, the deceased, etc. nowadays?[/nq]
[nq:1]The meaning is somewhat broader nowadays. "Defunct," the adjective, means "no longer in existence." A retail establishment, a corporation, a ... include Pan-American, TWA, Eastern, etc." "Defunct" can also be used of a person, but "dead" or "deceased" is more usual.[/nq]
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[nq:1]I think "defunct", like "spelt", is the past participle of a verb, "defink", which has the past "defank". Whenever someting is defunct, there must be a definker who has defunked (BrE "defunct") it.[/nq]
This betrays an almost hopeless confusion. Bob C. has somehow conflated a verb conjugation with the well-known Chicago expression "Da (or "de") finger," whose meaning should be obvious. C

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[nq:1]} } } }> I think "defunct", like "spelt", is the past participle of a }> verb, ... plunger is either the person doing it or the tool used, after which a toilet has been plunged (=BrE: "plunct").[/nq]
Be that as it may, have you ever taken a plunge in a plunge?
Skitt (in SF Bay Area)

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? Robert Lieblich was all, like:
[nq:1]I recall an early SNL episode in which Gilda, Laraine, and Jane played a three-girl rock band singing a song with a refrain that included the phrase "all funked up" or something to similar effect. Those were the days ...[/nq]
Just Gilda, as punk singer "Candy Slice" singing her ode to Mr Jagger, but the other two ma

[nq:1]the defunct Does this expression have the meaning of the dead person, the deceased, etc. nowadays?[/nq]
In what context?
In my experience it is usually used to machinery that is broken and no longer functioning rather than people.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa

[nq:1]the defunct Does this expression have the meaning of the dead person, the deceased, etc. nowadays?[/nq]
Did a translation from French prompt this question? French uses "le defunt" where English nowadays prefers "the deceased," "the loved one," etc.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
dphillipson(at)trytel.com