verbing in the Stanford Chaparral
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Apr 16 16:02:21 UTC 2007
(the Stanford Chaparral is the student humor magazine)
from vol. CVIII no. 3, p. 8, "A Gentleman's Club" (by Meghan
McCurdy), the verbing of an interjection:
[about a place called A Gentleman's Club] It pains me even now to
take it down, but rest assured that in the low grunts of lesser
humanity I found no conversation worth having, no music worth
listening to, and in the unnecessary and gratuitous display of base
and vile flesh no companionship worth pursuing. I fie upon it.
[the OED takes "fie" back to a sound of disgust]
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