Comments on: Nouns that are now also verbs?

Question: Nouns that are now also verbs?

hokie409 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:26:51 -0800

Is there a list of nouns that have become verbs and when they were officially added as a verb to one of the main dictionaries?

I was talking with someone they were surprised when I used a word as a verb. It got me thinking about nouns that are now used a verbs.
Ex: Google (I'll google it), Hammer (I hammered it), Phone (I'll phone you), wordsmith (I'll wordsmith the report)
If you look up telephone at Merriam-Webster Online for example:
Noun: 1844
Verb: 1877

There are articles and lists of new words added to dictionaries but are there official lists of existing nouns being added as verbs to dictionaries or a list of the popular ones in the last 10 years?

By: DieHipsterDie

DieHipsterDie — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:36:59 -0800

It doesn't have dates but this is a pretty huge list of nouns turned into verbs.

By: mdn

mdn — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:10:13 -0800

modern dictionaries are descriptivist, which means they consider the language users the "official" notice on a when a word becomes part of the language. They'll add it to the next edition of a dictionary when it's been noticed by enough editors, but I wouldn't think of it as "official" so much as "historically noted" or something like that.

By: rob511

rob511 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:48:49 -0800

Eyeball this.

P.S. If you look up tantalize, would the illustration depict the website verbednoun.com?

By: yclipse

yclipse — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:30:15 -0800

The first one among geeks, I think, was "access".

By: dawdle

dawdle — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:31:15 -0800

party

By: kch

kch — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:50:55 -0800

quoting thinkingwoman in a later askme: xerox

By: creasy boy

creasy boy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:07:58 -0800

I can't help you find a list, but I think English is unique in that almost anything can be made into a verb if you try hard enough. Kids were bused out into suburbs from the inner city. We schooled them. I brained him with a rock. We tabled the issue.