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(or, speaking of verbing nouns)
bear-hug - [v] trans. To give (a person) a bear-hug, esp. an affectionate one. Also intr.: to engage in a bear-hug. 1944 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 4 June 29/3 Miss Landis was telling a story about him, not knowing he was in the audience. He jumped to his feet, cried out, ‘I'm Landis!’ and dashed to the platform where he bear-hugged his cousin. 1961 J. P. LASH Dag Hammarskjold xix. 266 Then there was Fidel Castro, stomping angrily out of one hotel allegedly for discriminatory treatment.., bear-hugging with Khrushchev, declaiming for 4.5 hours. 2000 H. SIMPSON Hey yeah right get a Life (2001) 151 Possibly she was proactive in her rapprochement with her husband, chucking him under the chin, bearhugging him, exchanging sportive punches. {draft entry Sept. 2003}
--- NB: I was going to add this to the previous thread of the same appellation, but that seems to have gone wide.
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What verbing? Hug isn't a verb all over sudden?
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I remember "bear-hug" from my earliest days. Remember the "Little Audrey laughed and laughed" jokes? Little Audrey saw a bear hugging a tree, and laughed and laughed, because she knew only God could make a tree.(About 1935
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>hug being a verb
yeahbut, you'll notice that bear-hug [v] is defined in terms of the noun bear-hug. as to bill's example, they haven't been smushed together yet, so to speak.
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Dr Bill's example doesn't even have the word bear-hug in it. Just only his intro to it does.
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>doesn't even
I guess that's what I didn't quite say..
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Dear Faldage: I can't think of a noun that cannot immediately be verbed. But me no buts, verb me not verbs.Adjectrive me no adjectives. So it seems a waste of time to try to date when a noun was first verbed.
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>I can't think of a noun that cannot immediately be verbed.
Read he while staring at his computer's speakers.
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Dear Max: Try again. Because of my deafness I have no use for speakers, and they are hidden behind my rather large monitor. Speaker me no speakers. Here's a sample of clumsy verbing from tonight's news: The military plays an important role in U.S. space exploration and should continue to partner with NASA, Air Force generals said Thursday.
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What verbing? Hug isn't a verb all of a sudden?
Strictly speaking, Faldage is right.
For those who are collecting faldage, this isn't a faldage. It's a quibble.
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