verb eponyms

[Wilson Gray]

How about "rambo" and "jap"?

On 9/18/05, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> There's also "bogart".
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> Jim Parish
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> 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?
>


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-Wilson Gray