verbing

Verb

verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)

1. (colloquial, nonstandard, transitive) To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
   • Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he...a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
2. Used as a placeholder for any verb.
   • For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series

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