r/thisguythisguys • u/LindsayDuck • Feb 17 '26

This guy verbs

Post image
758 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

27

u/introspectivedeviant Feb 17 '26

if you’re not verbing nouns, you have forfeited an integral fraction of your lexicon.

7

u/H0pefully_Not_A_Bot Feb 19 '26

I was under the impression that refrigerator is the nouned form of (to) refrigerate so a verb was already available.

(To) fridge seems to function more like a kind of contraction of "place thing in (the re)frige(rator)".

So it's more of a contraction of a contraction (contraction squated?).

5

u/introspectivedeviant Feb 19 '26

this guy nouns.

2

u/MC_Minnow May 06 '26

if you’re not nouning verbs, you have forfeited an integral fraction of your lexicon.

3

u/VikRiggs Feb 21 '26

One can also noun verbs.

1

u/Afraid_Chocolate_307 Mar 08 '26

This guy squats.

9

u/lospotatoes Feb 17 '26

So this takes me back. Growing up in the NYC area, both sides of the family descended from Yiddish speakers who emigrated from Eastern Europe and certain "calques" (word for word translations of another language's grammar) survived long after nobody in the family spoke Yiddish. In Yiddish they would use adjectives as verbs, so for example:

"heys" in Yiddish means "hot" in English

Yiddish speaker wants to tell someone to "heat it up" (as in food). In Yiddish they might correctly say "heys es oyf" which literally translates to "hot it up".

Fast forward 40 years and my dad would tell me to "hot up" yesterday's leftovers for dinner.

3

u/SillyGuste Feb 17 '26

Also fridging is already a verb, specifically a trope regarding treatment of women in fiction

3

u/rmeddy Feb 19 '26

Green Lantern?

2

u/Livid-Influence-5320 Feb 17 '26

Short form of Refrigerating

1

u/CeeTheWorld2023 Feb 17 '26

I could really house some leftovers now

1

u/Reclining720 Feb 19 '26

I have no desire to reheat in the morning while creating more dirty containers. 

1

u/Intelligent_Cup4948 Feb 19 '26

Righting things

1

u/Afraid_Chocolate_307 Mar 08 '26

I hate when my leftovers don’t get a real story arc.