verbing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“We also turned verb into a verb so you can play verbed and verbing,” said Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, Peter Sokolowski, a smile on his face and a word-nerd glitter in his eye during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.
From Seattle Times
Jon R. Simon amusingly noted “that our English tongue is frequently yanked and twisted, with some miscreants verbing nouns.”
From Golf Digest
Sadly, it is true, as two golfers observed on the April 29 Free for All page, that our English tongue is frequently yanked and twisted, with some miscreants verbing nouns.
From Washington Post
Level of style won’t help you here: unlike the alternatives set apart by other pseudo-rules in the oral tradition, neither which nor that is more formal than the other. verbing and other neologisms.
From Literature
Even if that’s not your aim, I’ve long felt that “verbing” is a particularly satisfying way to weird the English language.
From Salon
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