A + verb (no gerund)

Jamaican dialect usage

Origin

Old English pronoun + verb.

Eg.

We a-walking to school. Reminiscent of Shakespeare's stylistic poetry.

(Extract from an Appalachian English song)

On the Seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me. Seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying.

(Extract from a nursery rhyme ca. 1905)
I saw the ship a-sailing, a-sailing on the sea, and oh!It was all laden, with pretty things for thee!

Influenced modern day Patois slang.

This usage fell into disuse in modern English and is now regional or dialectal. A similarity in usage can be noted in the European Portuguese language structure.

A + verb (no gerund)

We a walk to school.

She a talk to all of them.

When you a leave let me know.

A + verb (no gerund) by Tropical Rythms December 9, 2021

flatulate (verb) 

to expel abdominal gas via the rectum; to fart. Variants: flatulation (noun)a fart; flatulatory (adj).

He experienced the embryonic manifestations of defecation marked by sudden abdominal discomfort and then flatulated; after coppin' a squat on the hopper, a flatulatory plop splashed his ass!

flatulate (verb) by weave March 19, 2003

top (verb) 

Informal British expression meaning 'to kill', usually (but not always) as an act of suicide.

Whatever happened to John?
He topped himself last year. Poor guy.

top (verb) by veleveleappeltjes February 20, 2005

(insert verb/noun) it up

To do something (insert verb) or be something (insert noun) to a very high degree as if to fill the entire room with it.

(insert verb/noun) it up

verb: He's not very good. I mean he's really stinking it up.

noun: That girl is such a slut. Does she always have to whore it up like that?

(insert verb/noun) it up by hotbuddha October 23, 2005

dreadvertise (verb; dread + advertise) 

to advertise by dread, to engage in military propaganda.

There are skilled dreadvertisers in our government.

dreadvertise (verb; dread + advertise) by Mikhail Epstein October 2, 2003

beastie (verb) 

To be beastie: to be extraordinarily spontaneous, rowdy, full of energy.

Let's be beastie and drive to the city tonight.

beastie (verb) by Smells April 16, 2004

roffle (verb) 

an act of laughing your ass off while at the same time rolling on floor histarically.

He roffles as he watch an old lady trip on her own walking stand.

roffle (verb) by word-nodoubt February 19, 2003