Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of verb.
Examples
“I also hate what Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes calls verbing nouns.”
“verbing' as a good thing, Mr. Shapiro said in an e-mail.”
“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.”
“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.”
“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Facebook, the social network? A Harvard perspective
“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”
“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.”
“As you proceed, you might want to mention Shakespeares verbing of nouns.”
Words Aren’t Categorical (another series) « Motivated Grammar
“Here are a lot more cats verbing nouns (peepee in the pants funny by midway thru): Link.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘verbing’.
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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Conversations for the Ages
A list of words that have fascinating conversations on them. Or just, you know, really funny ones. If I missed any, I hope someone will let me know...
Also see a few other Wordizens' l...misuse, slough of despond, drinking problem, sausage fest, vergerhade, baromets, todal, googlewhack, quetzalcoatl, cheesewa, cheesois, absinthe and 187 more...
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good
unfuck, ostensibly, exacerbate, merciless, fluffy, digital breadcrumbs, cyberchondria, power nap, gaping maw, spectral, spectral, verbivores and 75 more...
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words that give me pleasure
shoe, 天下, rhythm, verbing, 屌, 國, scepticism, ameliorate, neologism, patata, �?負, nigger and 40 more...
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pickwick's Words
globule, context, glossolalia, squee, gerrymander, verbing, flagellate, leathery, sepulchral, squiggly, schwa, zyzygy and 40 more...
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Idle Chatter
Ok, I'm changing this one to an in-between list for Conversations and Chit Chat. We just have too much fun. :)
pareidolia, hoodoo, myrrh, baromets, verbing, stinkhead, marquee, bananaphone, 99 bottles of bee..., wordie tenth comm..., pit of despair, crocs and 31 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for verbing.
reesetee Uh huh. Of course you would. Oct 31, 2007
chained_bear I would call them simply "befoulables." Oct 31, 2007
reesetee You guys must be crazy at that place, c_b. Those are befoulable offenses! Oct 31, 2007
chained_bear 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.) Oct 31, 2007
arby 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. Oct 31, 2007
uselessness To life, more like. We're totally relifing it. Oct 10, 2007
reesetee So we're verbing English to death? Oct 10, 2007
seanahan I believe that there are estimates that something like 25% of English verbs used to be nouns. Oct 10, 2007
reesetee 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. ;-) Oct 10, 2007
chained_bear 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'. Oct 10, 2007
arby 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. Oct 10, 2007
reesetee Oh. *slinks away* Oct 10, 2007
chained_bear No, I saw it the other day. Thanks though. Oct 9, 2007
reesetee Oh, chained_bear, you missed the whole nounal discussion! Go see. :-) Oct 9, 2007
chained_bear 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. Oct 9, 2007