单词 | nouning |
释义 | nouningn. The use of another part of speech as a noun; (also) indication of nouns through non-verbal communication. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > conversion into nouning1757 substantivization1901 nominalization1933 1757 E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1766) IV. 60 As to the Nouning and Verbing, which he so heavily charged you with, I told him I dared answer for it that you never confounded Grammar. 1976 Current Anthropol. 17 281 The hand..would be involved in..description or modelling with a tendency toward ‘nouning’, some ‘adjectival’ marking, and ‘verbing’ or indication of action or process. 1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Aug. a13 Because the purists among us are so busy tsk-tsking the verbalization of nouns, my guess is that they will not even notice this nouning of an adverb. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1757 |
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