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- verb Present participle of
verb .
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Examples
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I also hate what Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes calls verbing nouns.
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'verbing' as a good thing, Mr. Shapiro said in an e-mail.
NYT > Home Page By NICK BILTON 2010
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"verbing" of nouns (or the creation of "nerbs") has been a flashpoint for the past four or five decades with the growth of business management lingo.
Salon 2009
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BTW, wedgie appears to be a nouning of the verb “to wedge”, which in turn was a verbing of the noun “wedge.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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The “verbing” of nouns (or the creation of “nerbs”) has been a flashpoint for the past four or five decades with the growth of business management lingo.
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But by verbing the noun "friend," making friends things you collect in grosses rather than whittle slowly in a moonlit workshop, it seems to render ironic the whole concept of friendship.
Facebook, the social network? A Harvard perspective Alexandra Petri 2010
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First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language.
superversive: Quotha superversive 2010
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First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language.
Quotha superversive 2010
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BTW, wedgie appears to be a nouning of the verb “to wedge”, which in turn was a verbing of the noun “wedge.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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The grammatical sin of nouning verbs and verbing nouns has turned our beloved English language into a viper's nest, a linguistic Sodom and Gomorrah.
chained_bear commented on the word verbing
Making a word into a verb by simply using it that way. E.g. "verbing weirds language." In this sentence, "verbing" is actually a noun. Which makes me wonder if "nouning" should be added to my list of favorite verbs... Hmm... I think yes.
October 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word verbing
Oh, chained_bear, you missed the whole nounal discussion! Go see. :-)
October 10, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word verbing
No, I saw it the other day. Thanks though.
October 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word verbing
Oh. *slinks away*
October 10, 2007
arby commented on the word verbing
I hate verbing. HATE IT. The worst is when people invent new verbs using body parts - "he toed off his shoes". ARGGGGHHHHHH!!!! Shoot me now, someone.
October 10, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word verbing
Gosh, I'm sorry, arby. I think verbing is kind of fun, mostly--at least it is on Wordie.
I don't like corporate verbing. An example is "A new way to office." No. No. I'm sorry, office can't be a verb, unless you're on Wordie. It ain't fittin', it just ain't fittin'.
It ain't fittin'.
October 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word verbing
Agreed, arby. I've been gritting my teeth ever since party and parent were verbed. The one exception is Wordie, where it's delightfully enjoyable to roundly mock verbing. Or to verb mocking. Take your pick. ;-)
October 10, 2007
seanahan commented on the word verbing
I believe that there are estimates that something like 25% of English verbs used to be nouns.
October 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word verbing
So we're verbing English to death?
October 10, 2007
uselessness commented on the word verbing
To life, more like. We're totally relifing it.
October 10, 2007
arby commented on the word verbing
Oh, everything is okay on Wordie. It's only in RL that it drives me bananas (bananas me?). I agree c_b, corporate verbing is particularly irritating.
October 31, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word verbing
We nouned an adjective at work today. We made a noun out of savable and printable. And then we said databasable, and almost made that a noun.
I think we befouled the English language enough for one day, though. (Thanks, arby. Glad you're not really a ninja.)
October 31, 2007
reesetee commented on the word verbing
You guys must be crazy at that place, c_b. Those are befoulable offenses!
October 31, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word verbing
I would call them simply "befoulables."
October 31, 2007
reesetee commented on the word verbing
Uh huh. Of course you would.
October 31, 2007