[Ads-l] Word: Adulting (adult as a verb)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Website: Patheos
Article: "Adulting" is an Indictment of Society, Not of Millennials
Author: John Beckett
Date: January 5, 2016

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2016/01/adulting-is-an-indictment-of-society-not-of-millennials.html

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Bashing Millennials seems to be the new national pastime. I see
article after article about how they're entitled, fragile, and above
all, immature. Perhaps nowhere is this more noticeable than in the
complaints against those who use "adult" as a verb:

    I cooked a meal today -- I'm adulting.
    They actually expect me to adult for eight hours every day.
    I’m adulting -- I put on pants today.
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Urban Dictionary has an entry for "adulting" from June 2015.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Adulting

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Adulting
Adulting (v): to do grown up things and hold responsibilities such as,
a 9-5 job, a mortgage/rent, a car payment, or anything else that makes
one think of grown ups.

Used in a sentence: Jane is adulting quite well today as she is on
time for work promptly at 8am and appears well groomed.

by Kguarna June 05, 2015
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