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Does anyone know the term to use when a proper name or noun is used as a verb? For example: someone was "Bork-ed", we've been "Daschel-ed", "Forest Gump-ed" your way through life. Any ideas?
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"Eponym" is a noun, and nouns can be "verbed".
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"Eponym" is a noun
We'll be OK as long as we don't boycott this thread.
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Anyone who boycotts this thread will get lynched.
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Lynch is even better than boycott since it seems to have never been anything than a verb; boycott seems to have appeared simultaneously as a verb and a noun.
I don't see why the word eponym can't apply here.
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Dear wsieber: Hard to find a guillotine. But you can jack ketch a guy with his own suspenders/ OK, I admit to inventing "jack ketch" as a verb. He was a famous English hangman. http://www.hangman.info/hangman2.htm
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>I admit to inventing "jack ketch" as a verb.
'ketch' is an extant verb in this sense (cf. ketchcraft).
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Dear tsuwm: your knowledge of obscure words mesmerizes me.
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