Talk:stamp

Possible missing senses

Chambers 1908 has these for the plural stamps: (i) stamp duties; (ii) (slang) money, especially paper money. Equinox ◑ 06:06, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Are the foot-related senses still current?

I am inclined to move all the foot-related senses to the end and mark the postage and marking senses as more common. I was even thinking of adding the old-fashioned label to them.

I was born after 2000 in Canada. The only times I've heard "stamp" is related to the post office, and metaphors related to that. I've heard stamping something as approving it and collecting stamps, but nothing related to the foot was used with "stamp." For that, we use "stomp," and this term was often learned from video games. I've heard stomp out of the room, stomp once in the recycling bin to compact it, and stomp on the ground. Anyway, we would use "stamp" mostly as a noun, it as a verb very formally, and "stomp" only as a verb. "Stomp" has lost any nuances of quantity or strength by this time, and "stamp" used with the feet sounds quite wrong. Daniel.z.tg (talk) 04:20, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

There's still stamp out (where stomp out is most often considered an error) and stamping grounds, which I think is less common than stomping grounds these days but still in current use. I'd say you're certainly right that stomp is more common, but i'd say it's a bit soon to call stamp in the same sense obsolete. —Soap— 23:43, 11 February 2023 (UTC)