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more about #words EKane: to Lil Mama - to interrupt someone's performance or shine more » la.donna.pietra: This one is neither new nor original, but it's worth mentioning anyway: To Uma: to wreak total havoc on a justified target, a la the Bride in Kill B... more » girl.of.your.dreams: "Situation": to refer to yourself in the third person. "I wish you would stop situationing and just tell the damn story." more » Jill7: "Mentor" was a man's name, then "to mentor" came to mean "to act as a guide and advisor to a younger, less experienced person." We now have the stupi... more » Ailatan: This one is a noun, I can not endorse this in verb form. Pratt noun from Latin prattao, prattae or pray God send him away 1. One of the signs of the ... more » itsonreserve: To Brown: To pretend apologize while actually promoting one's work, after committing a heinous act. You should be ashamed of yourself! Quit Browning ... more » DonnaPirana: To Aniston verb, trans : to suffer years of continual loneliness and child-coveting following a devastating breakup, resulting in embarrassing, path... more » Ms.Frost: To Lieberman: To successfully wield unearned or unjustified influence to derail or stop progressive and/or utalitarian tasks for nonsensical reasons. ... more » Ailatan: To Spears verb trans -To be a pop star with virgin/whore appeal. See also, To Cyrus -To lose shit, esp. in front of paparazzis. -To find path of rede... more » FroderickFronkensteen: To Prejean: the act of avoiding answering a question you don't want to answer by accusing the other person of "being inappropriate" or hating "opposit... more » k.trujillo8: This reminds me of Wanda Sykes who said that Michael Jackson died of Michael Jackson. more » Ailatan: To Woods verb trans To be married and seduce and bed lots of different women, esp. those with the name Jamie. more » ElizaGray: To Britney: 1. to suffer mental collapse and shave one's head in a public forum. 2. to inexplicably bounce back from definition 1 and contiue to expe... more » Puddlefish: To Tyra: To coin (often portmanteau) words in scattershot fashion and subsequently maintain a condescending incredulity when no one knows what the hel... more » LaComtesse: Jumping off my UrbanDictionary definition... To Polanski: to give an excuse or justification for a deplorable action unrelated to the action itself. more » Mary McCarthyite: To Love: To post incoherent rants on your Facebook and/or Twitter, directed at a family member or another celebrity. See also to Kanye. "To Kanye... more » Laines: I thought "to Palin" was "to quit for the slightest reason." As in, "I'm Palining school today because of this broken fingernail." more » Puddlefish: I love you for the Tycho Brahe reference, Anna! I remember always thinking he had the coolest name, and the Wikipedia entry reminds me of how very int... more » Mary McCarthyite: To Gaga: to consistently and unashamedly go without pants! See also to Lohan. Actually, I think the verb "To Lohan" could have several definitions. more » cinematheques: Re: To Heene. See also To Gosselin. more » -
#celexicon
Repent, And Salahi No More: Celebrity Names That Should Be Verbs
Wall Street Journal writer Mark Helprin says those "strange pinheads," Tarek and Michaele Salahi, deserve their own verb. He also lists some other famous people whose names have entered the common lexicon — but we can think of more.
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#sticksandstones
Has The Word "Bitch" Lost Its Bite?
Yesterday, reports started circulating that New York Senator Chuck Schumer called a flight attendant a 'bitch' - now, Republicans are trying to make an issue out of it. One question: does anyone even care about the word "bitch" anymore?
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#bagit
4 Reasons The Douchebag Has Jumped The Shark
While we're on the subject of language, I'd like to point out that both the word "douchebag" and the concept it stands for are, like, totally over. After the jump, four reasons why.
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#issuesinlexicography
Dictionary Now Has New Words, Like Teabagging
The New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year for 2009 is unfriend. For this honor, lexicographers also considered: zombie bank, birther, death panel, funemployment, and hashtag. Strangely, only half the definition of teabagging made it to print. [OUP] More » -
#crosswords
A Rose By Any Other Name Might Make You Angry
Do different languages evoke different emotions? That's the question posed by Times blogger Olivia Judson, inspired by research that shows just making a certain vowel sound can affect your mood. More » -
#wordplay
Safire Would've Had A Field Day...
Apparently the longest entry in the new Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary goes to the word "immediately," which has a whopping 265 synonyms with which to express our collective impatience and probably exaggerated sense of urgency. [TimesUK] -
#wordnerds
What Words Would You Send To The Word Graveyard?
"I'm VERY tired of reading the word VERY," my fourth grade teacher would say, "To the word graveyard!" And with that, she'd bury another word in the tiny graveyard at the back of our classroom. More » -
#wordplay
Life's Work
Professor Christian Kay has spent 42 years compiling the world's most comprehensive thesaurus. (Which of course means the Daily Mail refers to her as a "lingo-loving spinster.") Says she, "Scots are quite good at dictionaries." [Daily Mail] -
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#msconception
"Ms." Dates Back To 1901
"[W]hat is needed is a more comprehensive term which does homage to the sex without expressing any views as to their domestic situation" — a 1901 newspaper article, earliest known source of the word "Ms." [Visual Thesaurus] -
#sic
Sic: Is The Econnomy Creating A Genneration Of Speling Bee-Otches?
“When I go through and mark up a menu, I’m not doing it to humiliate the person... I just want them to know so they don’t look uneducated." Is this persnickety dame a recession casualty? More » -
#booklarnin
Is Your Child The Slow Reader?
It's the ambitious parent's worst nightmare: a kid who moves his lips when he reads. How will he ever experience neurosis and loss?!
