verb eponyms

[Jeff Prucher]

There're pander and sherlock.  Michael Adams reports "Scully" and "Keyser Soze"
in "Slayer Slang" (there are probably more such Buffyisms but those are the two
I found with a quick glance).  And, by a rather circuitous route, "pants,"
which is derived from pantaloon, which is in turn derived from the Commedia
character Pantaloon/Pantalone.

Jeff Prucher

--- Tom Kysilko <pds at VISI.COM> wrote:

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> While driving around today I heard someone on NPR claim that the only verb
> eponyms she could think of without "linguistic decoration", i.e. without
> affixes such as -ize, were "Bork" and "Bobbit".  (She had already mentioned
> "boycott" as an eponym, but perhaps she doesn't think of it as a verb.)
>
> I thought surely there must be more, but could come up with none on my
> own.  An Internet search got me "Fisk", as well as "Fudge" whose status as
> an eponym is dubious.
>
> Interestingly, Bork, Bobbit, Fisk, and Boycott were all victims of the
> action bearing their name.  My approach was to try to think of
> perpetrators, especially in sports, but I could think of none.
>
> Can anyone think of any others?
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>    Tom Kysilko        Practical Data Services
>    pds at visi.com       Saint Paul MN USA
>            http://www.visi.com/~pds
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