verbing

The act of turning a noun into a verb. Verbing results in verbation. Although in a sense it is the inverse of a gerund, a word that has been verbed can actually be turned back into a noun as a gerund. Hence verbing is the gerund form of the verbed noun "verb."

I googled you before our first date.

Jerk! Stop verbing!

by sciurus September 12, 2004

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to make a noun into a verb

verbing words weirds language

by StrengthThroughApathy February 23, 2010

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Intentional misuse of a noun as a verb for comedic effect and in some cases to clarify your aims.

verbing in action:

1. "Hey insert name here, you've been gettin' pretty friendly with insert name here recently, eh?" "Hell yeah! We were sexing all night a few days ago!"

2. "Do you mind scooting over a bit?" "Sure, chairing is caring!"

by spohken July 04, 2011

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Verbing

The grammatical choice of taking a word that is usually a noun and using it a verb.

These are all examples of verbing:
"That drag queen womans better than I do."
"I potatoed on the couch all day today"
"I'm so tired I can't even brain right now"

by Sunshine100695 October 10, 2013

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A word indicating an action or doing things.

Such verbs include:
*kill
*eat
*ride
*play
*jump
*type
*order
*buy
*collect
*exercise
*ram
.....among MANY others.

In this day and age, anything can be a verb.

"Verb...it's whatcha do!"
-that commercial

by Dave April 04, 2004

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