2pbfV postings
back-formation postings (on two-part verbs)
☛ AZ, 8/22/08: To gay marry:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=519]
☛ AZ, 11/2/08: Early/absentee vote (the verbs):
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=795]
☛ AZ, 4/5/09: scuba dove?:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1296]
☛ 6/8/09: child-rear:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/08/child-rear/]
☛ 6/8/09: Today’s two-part back-formed verb inventory:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/08/todays-two-part-back-formed-verb-inventory/]
☛ 6/9/09: Back-formings:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/09/back-formings/]
☛ 6/12/09: Please stop:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/12/please-stop/]
stop sending examples
☛ 6/13/09: Postings on 2-p b-f verbs:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/13/postings-on-2-p-b-f-verbs/]
☛ 7/11/09: to name-check:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/07/11/to-name-check/]
☛ 9/15/09: feel-copping:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/09/15/feel-copping/]
☛ 9/17/09: Eve-teasing:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/09/17/eve-teasing/]
☛ 9/23/09: Lifting shirts:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/09/23/lifting-shirts/]
☛ 5/1/10: travel-write:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/05/01/travel-write/]
☛ 4/11/11: Odds and ends:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/04/11/odds-and-ends/]
page-turn
☛ 4/23/11: Mining back-formation:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/04/23/mining-back-formations/]
data mine, data dredge, data fish, data snoop, quote mine, text mine
☛ 9/29/11: Financial back-formation:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/09/29/financial-back-formation/]
insider-trade
☛ 5/7/12: xkcd back-formation:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/07/xkcd-back-formation/]
basket-weave, underwater basket-weave
☛ 11/4/12: A batch of back-formation:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/11/04/a-batch-of-back-formations/]
executive-produce, open carry, concealed carry, way-find
☛ 3/3/13: Annals of back-formation:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/03/03/annals-of-back-formation/]
to hard-hit
☛ 4/15/13: Synthetic compounds and back-formation: go-go truth-telling:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/04/15/synthetic-compounds-and-back-formation-go-go-truth-telling/]
to truth-tell, to go-go dance
☛ 7/4/13: From absentee-vote to zero-tolerate:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/04/from-absentee-vote-to-zero-tolerate/]
16 examples from Neal Whitman
☛ 7/14/13: Another gay back-formed verb:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/14/another-gay-back-formed-verb/]
to gay-flirt
☛ 7/24/13: Brief mention: you onion-peel so slowly:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/24/brief-mention-you-onion-peel-so-slowly/]
to onion-peel, both literal and figurative
☛ 8/7/13: Annals of back-formation:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/07/annals-of-back-formation-2/]
to truck-chase, to harsh-parent
☛ 8/14/13: Odds and ends 8/14/13:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/14/odds-and-ends-81413/]
to bad kiss
☛ 10/3/14: Morphology Friday 2: back-formed freedom-fight:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/03/morphology-friday-2-back-formed-freedom-fight/]
to freedom-fight
☛ 7/29/15: What’s wrong with this verb?:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/29/whats-wrong-with-this-verb/]
drunk-drive, nude-sunbathe
☛ 7/31/15: PSP synthetic compounds:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/31/psp-synthetic-compounds/]
PSP synthetic compounds and back-formations from them
☛ 8/5/15: Culinary Loc + V back-formed Vs:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/05/culinary-loc-v-back-formed-vs/]
20 examples
☛ 8/17/15: Adjs in 2pbfVs:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/17/adjs-in-2pbfvs/]
to situational hit, to official-score
☛ 1/3/16: New Year’s 2pbfv crop:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/03/new-years-2pbfv-crop/]
to open-carry, to concealed-carry, to conceal carry; to music-direct
☛ 1/17/16: The family that fund-raises together:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/17/the-family-that-fund-raises-together/]
to fund-raise in Gail Collins column
☛ 1/22/16: Rabble, rouse yourself from this pastoral torpor!:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/22/rabble-rouse-yourself-from-this-pastoral-torpor/]
to rabble-rouse
☛ 1/23/16: to shape-shift:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/23/to-shape-shift/]
☛ 5/25/17: 1 Bizarro, 2 Bizarro:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/25/1-bizarro-2-bizarro/]
to ice-fish
☛ 7/4/17: Another prohibition on tipping:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/04/another-prohibition-on-tipping/]
to fly-tip
☛ 12/23/17: they kitchen-kissed again:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/23/they-kitchen-kissed-again/]
to kitchen-kiss
☛ 12/26/17: to pizza-make:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/26/to-pizza-make/]
☛ 3/27/18: V-headed compounds
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/27/v-headed-compounds/]
to snowblow, to treasure-hunt, to course-correct
☛ 10/18/19: Heavenly POP:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/10/18/heavenly-pop/]
to gate-crash
☛ 9/28/22: On the interview watch:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2022/09/28/on-the-interview-watch/]
to family-plan
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