June 16, 2005

Anthimeria

This came up last night at dinner. It describes the use of a noun as a verb. For example:

At the poetry reading, the symbolist nouned us for over an hour.

or:

His talking parrot nouned loudly.

or:

Don't you hate it when people verb nouns?

Posted by Red Chuck at June 16, 2005 10:05 AM
Comments

ahhh.. so that's what you call it. My favorite is Barry describing a tasteless, slap-happy bass player (who shall remain nameless) in the studio:

"man, he was Seinfelding me to death!"

Posted by: spinsouth on June 17, 2005 09:49 AM
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