A fork of Rural Dictionary
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"
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
To stimulate something or someone.
Let us verb the people's mentality in unison.
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!