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  • verb Present participle of noun.

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  • Making a word into a noun by simply using it as one. E.g., "Verbing weirds language," in which "verbing" is a noun, but of course it can also be a verb... Just see verbing already.

    October 9, 2007

  • In English class we called these gerunds...

    October 10, 2007

  • But on Wordie, all bets are off. ;-)

    October 10, 2007

  • Well, yes, it's a gerund in the sense that it ends in -ing, but it's a verb (and a madeupical one, at that) in the sense that "noun" isn't a verb and I just made it one. Nanny nanny foo foo.

    October 10, 2007

  • All this madeupical wordification stranges me.

    October 10, 2007

  • Really? It funs me.

    October 10, 2007