Verbification of Martha Stewart

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:07 PM -0500 12/22/04, Alice Faber wrote:
>I was struck by this (perhaps) nonce-formation in the Toronto Sun, quoting
>Eric Lindros:  "Myself, I've bought a house in the area and I've Martha
>Stewart-ed it up."
>(<http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/2004/12/21/792489.html>)
>
No implication of vertical bars on the windows, eh?

On a tangent, several of the students who submitted their New English
Word Journals for a class of mine mentioned encountering "Winonaed",
in the sense of "shoplifted".  The incident is now several years old,
but the verb is apparently just coming into its own.

Larry