verb eponyms

[Jim Parish]

There's also "bogart".

Jim Parish

Tom Kysilko wrote:
> 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?