Verbing
verbing postings (zero conversion only, not –ize, -ify, etc.) in AZBlog
note: this is not a list of all the verbings in my files, but rather a list of postings
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☛ 5/11/10: sandwich:
sandwich
☛ 7/17/10: The Zits bath:
spit-bath ‘give a spit-bath’
☛ 7/22/10: Zippy goes zip-lining:
zip-line (verbing or back-formation?)
☛ 8/1/10: Data points: verbing 8/1/10:
mandamus
☛ 8/18/10: Data points: verbing 8/18/10:
quote ‘originate (a notable quote/quotation)’
☛ 9/12/10: Data points: verbing, back formation 9/12/10:
catwalk ‘perform on or as on a catwalk at a fashion show; put someone or something on a catwalk, display someone or something on a catwalk’
☛ 10/21/10: Astonishing verbings:
euthanasia, intercourse
☛ 12/24/10: Advances in verbing:
mice
☛ 2/23/11: I was doored:
door
☛ 2/23/11: scootering:
scooter
☛ 3/9/11: Scornful X-isms, X-manteaus, and X derivatives:
sheen (from Charlie Sheen)
☛ 4/3/11: Verbing, mistake, or what?:
barber (on about); possibly a mistake
☛ 4/27/11: timesuck, the verb:
timesuck (not yet attested); mention of mommy-track, timestamp
☛ 5/5/11: Comic reporting:
peacock
☛ 6/28/11: batting:
bat ‘hunt for bats’
☛ 7/3/11: Verbing: dildo:
dildo, fist
☛ 8/26/11: bottoming:
bottom (in several senses)
☛ 8/27/11: Uncle Tomming:
Uncle Tom
☛ 10/19/11: Annals of verbing:
escoveitch
☛ 3/24/12: to oxter:
oxter
☛ 4/13/12: rebuttal, the verb:
rebuttal
☛ 4/15/12: The news for pet rodents:
guinea-pig
☛ 4/17/12: excessed:
excess
☛ 4/20/12: Odds and ends:
paragon
☛ 5/8/12: umbrella-reflect:
umbrella-reflect
☛ 5/9/12: times, the verb:
times
☛ 5/30/12: Lexical gap filled:
rainbow
☛ 7/6/12: Annals of commercial verbing:
showroom
☛ 8/2/12: The great wave of verbing rolls on:
Haefeli cartoon: social-network
☛ 8/30/12: to long grass:
long grass; inventory of AZBlog postings on verbing
☛ ML, 9/2/12: In this day of slack style…:
function
☛ 2/10/13: The inevitable verbing:
drone ‘attack with a drone, kill by a drone’
☛ 3/12/13: Tea Party verbing:
primary
☛ 3/24/13: Cyanide and Happiness roundup:
peer pressure
☛ 4/22/13: More on modern communication:
Facebook
☛ 5/5/13: Clubbing:
club ‘go to (dance) clubs’
☛ 5/21/13: Verbing garbage:
garbage
☛ 7/1/13: Screwball comedy:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/01/screwball-comedy/
drugstore
☛ 11/4/14: Verbing the bumpkin:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/04/verbing-the-bumpkin/
various verbings of bumpkin
☛ 12/31/14: Verbing the Second Amendment:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/31/verbing-the-second-amendment/
second-amendment
☛ 3/7/16: Jeremy, adulting:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/07/jeremy-adulting/
adult ‘act like an adult’
☛ 3/23/16: Annals of verbing: to long-press:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/23/annals-of-verbing-to-long-press/
☛ 4/12/16: Verbing compounds: to turkey-peek, to prairie-dog:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/12/verbing-compounds-to-turkey-peek-to-prairie-dog/
☛ 4/19/16: plate my meal:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/19/plate-my-meal/
verbing of plate (food)
☛ 4/26/16: icing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/26/icing/
verbing of noun ice
☛ 5/7/16: binge-bingeing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/07/binge-bingeing/
possibly direct verbing of the noun binge-binge
☛ 6/24/16: Word times: two Ruthies, three Psychs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/24/word-times-two-ruthies-three-psychs/
nutshell ‘to put into a nutshell, to summarize succinctly’
☛ 10/31/16: Annals of verbing (and poetic meter):
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/31/annals-of-verbing-and-poetic-meter/
verbing of spunk ‘semen’
☛ 11/27/16: Face work:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/27/face-work/
verbs to facial, to spunk
☛ 1/2/17: Queens & Cowboys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/02/queens-cowboys/
the verb to rodeo
☛ 1/29/17: bro-verbs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/29/bro-verbs/
verbings of the noun bro: to bro down, to bro it up, to de-bro
☛ 2/26/17: More piggery:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/26/more-piggery/
verbings of the noun pig
☛ 5/3/17: A musical decline:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/03/a-musical-decline/
verb diminuendo
☛ 5/10/17: Regional potato chips:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/10/regional-potato-chips/
the causative / inchoative verb stale ‘make or become stale’
☛ 6/17/17: For Eve V. Clark:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/17/for-eve-v-clark/
the innovative verbing sleigh ‘put into a sleigh, harness to a sleigh’; Clark & Clark 1979 on verbing
☛ 7/3/17: Getting the comic:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/03/getting-the-comic/
the verbing tip ‘give practical advice to’
☛ 10/13/17: Wrinkle cream:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/13/wrinkle-cream/
verbings denoting provision and verbings denoting removal
☛ 11/13/17: Environmentally responsible derivation:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/13/environmentally-responsible-derivation/
verb source ‘obtain from a particular source’
☛ 12/5/17: Ruthie verbs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/05/ruthie-verbs/
putative noun cahoot, verbed to cahoot with ‘be in cahoots with’
☛ 12/23/17: they kitchen-kissed again:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/23/they-kitchen-kissed-again/
possibly a verbing of the (well-attested) N + N compound kitchen-kiss ‘a kiss in the kitchen’
☛ 3/27/18: V-headed compounds:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/27/v-headed-compounds/
verbings DRONE STRIKE and MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK
☛ 6/16/18: DJ is chaired at Stanford:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/16/dj-is-chaired-at-stanford/
an assortment of verbings of the noun chair
☛ 7/13/18: Swiss steak:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/13/swiss-steak/
nonce verbings of the Adj/N Swiss: ‘to become Swiss, to make (s.o. or s.th.) Swiss, to act Swiss, to supply with Swiss things or people, to treat (s.o.) like a Swiss person’ etc.; and also ‘to add Swiss cheese to’ and the like
also: N calender and its verbing
productive pattern of verbing onomatopoetic expressions denoting noises — giving tut-tut, shush, eek, etc. both as representations of noises and as verbs denoting the making of such a noise
☛ 7/23/18: Death by verbing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/23/death-by-verbing/
SMBC cartoon with verbings of quoted expressions
☛ 10/13/18: Chic peas and more:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/13/chic-peas-and-more/
verbing of N smoke
☛ 10/17/18: PUMP!ing it up:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/17/pumping-it-up/
verbings of N pump
☛ 11/7/18: Arousing the beast:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/07/arousing-the-beast/
verbing of N moon
☛ 12/15/18: Yoo-hoo, Aargau!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/15/yoo-hoo-aargau/
verbing of the exclamation yoo-hoo
☛ 12/27/18: bait and tackle:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/27/bait-and-tackle/
N to V to N in the history of tackle (and verbing of bait)
☛ 4/30/19: Where are you going with that?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/30/where-are-you-going-with-that/
verbing of the tool names ax and sledgehammer
☛ 5/25/19: Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/25/brenda-the-civil-disobedience-penguin/
verbing of egg, pie, and milkshake
☛ 3/19/20: Buzz me, baby:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/03/19/buzz-me-baby/
verbings of buzz