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 AMahhh.. 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