verbing in the Stanford Chaparral

[Joel S. Berson]

She's clearly familiar with the instance cited by OED2:

   intr. To say Fie!
    c1394 P. Pl. Crede 616 [He] fyeþ on her falshedes þat þei bifore deden.

Joel

At 4/16/2007 12:02 PM, you wrote:
>(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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