words that are a noun and a verb and and adjective

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i can't think of any good ones just now.. swear words seem quite commonly to be showing this trait.

1. shit ("piece of shit", "don't shit yourself", "a shit song")

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Fine

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Set

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Adjective?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Set Jelly.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah yes. It's the adjective part that's difficult about this, though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Even.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Still?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Is 'even' a noun?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Or "still"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, it is an alternative word for "evening" and it can be used to refer to an even as opposed to an odd number, eg "you add the evens and the odds together".

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

fast (also an adverb!)
rank

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

still = "that guy did an exhibition of all the stills he took", "still my fear", "still pond"

i think future entries should come with an example of all three

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

and number your entries please.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

iron
round

aaragh x-post, can't count now

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Clean.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Greg's!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

examples please!!!! wait clean is a noun???

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

'give it a good clean'

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

10. light "369 seconds of light" "light up" "light goods"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Open. 1) the British Open (ok bit dodgy that one) 2) open the door 3) the door was open.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Shaft

― Davel (Davel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Queer.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

15. rave "dude let's go to a rave" "everyone raved about this album" "it was a rave review"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"If she asks Ian for a pay rise before I do, it will probably queer my pitch."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Snowball

― Davel (Davel), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

examples pls :(((((( shaft adj??

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How's that an adjective?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"snowball", i mean.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

flat

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

er wait, maybe that loses on the "verb" front.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

that's why you should try and include an example before you post :))

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

wank

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

20. top "hey nice top" "you can't top that" "top drawer"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

21. fake "that's a fake" "i faked it" "fake fur"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

bottom. "I've hit bottom" "It's the one on the bottom" "he might bottom out this season"

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hm, second one should be like "bottom left corner" or something. For an English major I sure suck at this :(

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

bum.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

bum as an adjective?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Bum note. Heh heh.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

23 (?) freak

le freak (c'est chic), i/you/we freak, freak accident

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah bum note haha ok

24. draft "thank god there's a draft" "drafted in" "draft beer"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

you spelled Draught wrong in draught beer

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

House

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Fly

"Watch that fly fly fly!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

how does one house?

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Shadow.

1)"My shadow". 2)"To shadow someone". 3)"The shadow cabinet".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

25. haha and of course.. grate "be careful when you walk over the grates" "grate some cheese" "hahah omgwtf this is grate!!"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost i think "draft beer" is also a correct spelling.. but how about like "a draft copy"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

my house will house the house party, Sarah.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"how does one house?"

this estate housed 5 families

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"A house party" sounds a bit unclear on the adjective side, "house rules" would perhaps be better?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

house wine.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha oh right :)

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Snowball Fight?

Shaft Driven?

― Davel (Davel), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

26. phone "pick up the phone" "i phoned you" "phone sex"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"shaft driven" would be an adjective, but shaft itself isn't in this example

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused... In English, does any noun that's put in front of another noun as an attribute automatically become an adjective? In "snowball fight", is "snowball" an adjective?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

27. well "draw water from the well" "tears welled" "i am well"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused... In English, does any noun that's put in front of another noun as an attribute automatically become an adjective? In "snowball fight", is "snowball" an adjective?
-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), August 9th, 2004 11:16 AM. (later)

it's objectionable really. in this example i guess "snowball" in "snowball fight" qualifies the word "fight" to a particular kind of fight, i.e. with snowballs.

of course there are some words that you can put a lot of random nouns in front of to turn them into an adjective... the challenge in this thread is to try and find adjectives that are actual ones that are applied to more than one occasion (like, it's hard to use "snowball" to describe any nouns other than "fight")

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

another crap one 28. bitch "what a bitch" "are you going to bitch about me?" "bitch slap"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, in Finnish a "snowball fight" would just be a composite noun made of two nouns.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

29. rear "kicked in the rear" "she was reared by wolves" "rear bumper"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

29. slave
i'm a slave 4 U, slave ancestors, slave to the rhythm

isn't "well" an adverb?

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

it's an adverb as well as an adjective noun and a verb! it's amazing!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

30. thin - mint x, to x out, the x man

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't the verb for "slave" "enslave"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ace.

1)A playing card. 2)"That shit is ace!" 3) "I was up all night studying, but it was worth it - I aced my chemistry final."

(The third one is a quote from the Freesearch dictionary.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

enslave is when you make someone a slave

to slave can mean to be working in a similar manner of a slave (i.e. hard)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

32. Jerk "what a jerk" "that thing jerked" "jerk chicken"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

33. cock - adjective only slangy but you know.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

34. rock "a rock" "rock back and forth" "rock music"(blah bad one)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

35. mint "a mint" "to mint" "in mint condition"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

36. close: my street is a Close, close the door, close weather.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

37. lead "a piece of lead" "lead me to your leader" "lead role"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Do "close" and "lead" count if they are pronounced differently in their different roles?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, are they even the same word?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

38. star

lucky star, to star in a film, a star performance

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

39. camp

boot camp, to camp outside, as camp as Christmas

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

kate it's BEST when they're pronounced differently (as long as they're spelt the same)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh 39. was a good one.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

40. blank "that was a blank" "i blanked her" "blank expression"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

No, no, no, Ken. If they are pronounced differently, it's often a linguistic sign that they are different words with different sources and meanings which have been standardised into being spelled the same. Those don't count!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

41. right
a human right, to right a wrong, do the right thing

42. wrong
the wrong girl, to wrong someone, a wrong turn

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

messed up that last example, but it still works.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuomas is far too good at this for someone who's not a native English speaker!

I agree that some of these adjectival uses - 'snowball', 'house' etc - are really just compound nouns. Also, surely homonyms don't count?? (oh xpost w. Kate.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

43. bukkake - "calum sure enjoyed that bukkake" "i bukkaked over calum" "haha omg check out calum's bukkake face!!"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

44.

i know they're not really same words but homonyms are kinda clever!

anyway lead can be a noun like "power lead".

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oops!

44. end "the end" "end it" "end game"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

45. jive (cut'n'pasted from a dictionary of jazz slang)

May be used as a:
Noun - an odd form of speech.
Ex: That "Jive" doesn't fool me.
Verb - to fool someone.
Ex: Stop "Jiving" me, will you.
Adjective - phoney or fake.
Ex: He's one "Jive" dude.
Perjorative. Someone not well liked.
JAMF - Jive A-- Mother F----R.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 9 August 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yellow.

1)A yellow flower. 2)"He was wearing yellow." 3)"I yellowed my shirt."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

47. read - "a good read", "i'll read it", "i'm a read person"

tuomas hates numbers

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm, colours are weird. I don't think that second example of yellow works as a noun. You CAN say 'a yellow', like 'a bright yellow' 'this yellow is nicer that that yellow'. But is it still implicitly an adjective, with the noun ellided?

'Read' is NOT an adjective ken!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a bit dodgy but what about like "i'm well read" "i'm sparsely read" "this philistine is so thinly read" etc.?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Substitute.

1)"You can substitute soy for meat." 2)"I'm his substitute." 3)Substitute teacher.

Archel, according to the Freesearch dictionary yellow can be both a noun and an adjective. If you say "I have a bright yellow T-shirt", it's an adjective, but if you say "You should wear more yellow", it's a noun.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but that is a past participle of a verb, just being used in a similar way to an adjective.

xpost, to ken that was.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure that is correct Tuomas, it just feels wrong. Both of those sentences feel like adjective phrases to me.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

but so are words like "deceased" "incensed"???

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. But since they are not spelt the same as their infinitive, there would be no temptation to use them [WRONGLY] on this thread ;)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, in this case "a yellow" is a hue, and "a hue" certainly is a noun.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes in that usage yellow is definitely a noun. But in 'more yellow' it's ambiguous.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, okay, sometimes the semantics escape me, what with being a foreigner and all...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell, they escape me 90% of the time too :) I'm just making it up.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is getting hard.. so like, if they didn't come from the same thing it's not the same word even if it's spelt the same way??

so words like "fast" shouldn't be in?? because in something that's "fast" and "to fast" the words came from different roots?? even if it's spelt the same and pronounced the same way?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

49. home - "my home" "homes in" "home ground"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Colours can be nouns, they're just abstract nouns. I mean, sure, you can't have a Red. (Well, unless it's a pill.) But neither can you have A Justice (well, unless you mean a Justice of the Peace) but the quality of justice is still a noun.

I know I'm contradicting myself here, but...

Either way, I have more of a problem with yellow as a verb than as a noun.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I think 'fast' is ok. Couldn't tell you exactly why though!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

50. chance

take a chance on me; i wouldn't chance it; a chance meeting.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

51. telling

it lost something in the telling; as I was telling you; that's a telling remark

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

52. Deal. 1) a good deal 2) deal the cards 3) a deal table
(Admittedly I have no idea what a deal table is, it's like wooden or something right?)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

wow 50 was good!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"telling" isn't the verb though is it?? (that'd be "tell"?)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, if we allow "-ing" words, this'll be too easy. I think we should have verbs in their basic form only.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

53. Glass "don't break the glass" "i wanted to glass him" "glass table"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

similarly
54. stone "nice stone" "let's stone chris martin" "stone wall"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

55. grass "nice grass" "oi! if you grass me i'm gonna snap you in 'alf innit" "grass court"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

smurf
"Oh yeah, I fucked that smurf."
"It was smurfy."
"She asked me to smurf on her tits."

― i am so going to smurf hell for this (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, but "smurfy" is a no no, it has to be the same exact form in every case. Are you sure it wouldn't work without the -y?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

56. roast "sunday roast" "Kieron Dyer and Frank Lampard sure roasted that chick good last night" "roast chicken"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I was walking home just now and thought of "blow"--but then realized I only had the tenuous "blow fly" as adjective. Sure, there's he/she/it blows, and let's all do some blow off a mirror...sigh.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The adjectives are definitely the trickiest.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Mass.

1)A mass of sand. 2)"People massed on the shore in order see the fireworks." 3)Weapons of mass destruction.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

They are! and hahaha I forgot blow job. Although I assume that's really one word.
(xpost)

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still wrestling with the problem of whether something is automatically an adjective if it goes before, or qualifies, a noun. Or whether it just becomes part of a compound noun. It's making my head hurt, I know that.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the difference between compound noun and adjective is if the same word can be applied to multiple different nouns. Snowball Fight is clearly a compound noun, because you can't have, say, a Snowball Table or something. But you can have, say Mass Destruction or Mass Panic, for example, which makes Mass an adjective, rather than a compound.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Can "to game" be used as a verb? You can have "a game" and you can also say "I'm game", but can you "game"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm i've never heard it.. but you can be a gamer, and enjoy gaming.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

what about Snowball maker?? Snowball chaos!!

(kidding :))

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

although

59. snow - "patch of snow" "when will it snow" "snow man"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah "telling" was kind of cheating.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The casino industry (in the U.S. at least) uses "game" and its deriviatives to avoid using the word "gamble," so they are probably already using it as a verb.

Pink.
Noun: the color, or a flower related to the carnation.
Adjective: of or pertaining to the color.
Verb: to cut in an ornamental fashion.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you Kate, that clarifies things! (So not sure about 'snow'. 'Snowman' is one word really.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

TV producers these days are yelling "Gay it up!"; Oh to be in gay Paris; Gays will soon fight for the sanctity of divorce.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I've only heard the noun used in plural form, so again I'm cheating. You wouldn't say "Is he a gay?"

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

so, is PinXor the only ilxor who is a noun, a verb and an adjective?!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

snow fight? snow scene? snow storm? snow dome? snow graffiti? (oh wait)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In the UK the noun form of 'gay' has become fairly common. 'I'm the only gay in the village!'

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

61. mean (the mean is the average used here, I mean it, a mean boss)
3 different mean ings!

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

62. snooker (Hendry needs 2 snookers, I snookered him behind the pink, snooker table)

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

63. key "fuck i've lost my keys" "key this in please" "this thing is urgent and key"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

major: He's a major in the army; I major in English; That's a major error.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

65. mine: That's mine; I mine for gold; that's a gold mine.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

VG! I keep thinking there are no more and then...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oops I used a noun twice --- mine bad!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

65. spare: I have a spare; Spare me!; I have a spare tire.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

66. butt: Nice butt!; Sorry to butt in; That guy is butt ugly.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

67. ground: We hit the ground running; Don't ground me, Mom!; I had a ground beef sandwich for lunch.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

68. Rough "it's landed in the rough", "i roughed him up good", "omg avril lavigne is rough"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

69. sound: Hear that sound? Sound the horn! That's a sound argument.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

70. Bear "omg it's a bear!" "i bear the burden" "a bear market"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

71. frank: Meet Frank; frank a letter; a frank poliitician

(actually frank can be used as a noun for a postmark)

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

72. Bull "omg it's a bull!" "i bull you not" "a bull market"

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

73. pleasure: It's a pleasure; please pleasure me; a pleasure cruise.

but do these count? are bear, bull and pleasure instances like snowball?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

74. Trace - "the trace of an lion", "trace that picture", "a trace amount"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i wasn't not sure about bear either :( but it's not like there's another word that describes it! and also the meaning of bear and bull isn't literal at least!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

75. foul - "that was a foul", "you fouled", "this is foul"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah - I think that bear and bull have taken on their own lives as adjectives, separate from the animals whence they came

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

76. clear "phew, i'm in the clear" "clear some space for me please" "the definition of adjectives isn't always clear"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

good one!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Now scraping the bottom of the bucket for archaic uses:

grave: I will take this secret with me to the grave; grave "here lies a real mensch" on my tombstone; that would be a grave mistake.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

smash: The group's smash hit did smash through the charts, a true smash for them. (I see now why few on this thread have tried to use all the usages in one sentence.)

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

79. chill: chill down the spine; chill out; that's a chill car.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

this works for EVERY word in the english language

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to ignore this thread, but it's impossible.

Staple: the staples of a good diet (n) or this staple in my finger is really painful, staple commodities (adj), he staples the papers together (v)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Tidy: the room is tidy, I'm going to tidy the room, I did a quick tidy of the room today.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

this works for EVERY word in the english language

Okay, use the verb form of EVERY in a sentence. I dare you. I every you.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

82. dope - "i'm gonna score some dope" "that dirty bastard tried to dope my drink last night" "oh man this track is dope!!"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

83. smoke - "Can I bum a smoke from you?" "We're gonna smoke 'em out of their holes" "That girl knows how to blow smoke rings"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

84. master "you're my master" "i've mastered it" "master copy"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

85. Best
"I'll best your personal best with my best penis."

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

best is not a verb!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I will best you in this competition to display our respective grasps of the English language.

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

would you believe it, there's an actual entry on dictionary.com for best as a verb! listed as colloquial but ok. i guess we had "dope" "chill" and "butt"!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

in which case
86. ok - "he has given the ok" "did he ok that?" "that song is ok"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not colloquial according to m-w.com

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There are far too many dodgy adjectives on this thread.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

m-w.com also sez that "cash" can be used as an adjective but its proferred definition is too specialized for me to use in a sentence.

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

87. Front
"Don't front"; "take this penis to the front of the counter"; "I golfed spendidly in the front nine"

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

88. Last
"Last night you lasted to the last."

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

89. Lame
"I lamed you who are a lame lame."

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Suprised no ones done this one:

90. Sex
"They had sex"
"She is sex" (not too sure about this as verb)
"I wanna sex you up"

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think your second example counts as an adjective -- it is equiv. to "She is Sex" which is noun.

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

And 'sex up' is not the same as 'sex' (though Cathy has just started using sex as a ~~weapon~~ verb on another thread and I like it. I never knew what sexing the cherry meant.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you could say "sex me" - colloquial, but a verb in that usage.

As for adjective, saying "sex" instead of "sexy" is a stretch I realise. Im sure it has been done though.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

too obvious, but "fuck" fits pretty much anywhere in a sentence.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck is not an adjective though. I wish some grammar whizz could come along and tell me the name for 'fuck' in 'fuck buddy', snow in 'snow angel' etc.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"That shirt you're wearing is totally fuck, bro"

― oops (Oops), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My grammar is poor to middling to these days, but if you're willing to admit common usages, people say things like "he's over there doing fuck all" where fuck seems to act something like an adjective.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, someone already has. Compound nouns.

x-post

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck buddy isn't a compound noun though! unless your buddy really is a fuck. although that's true as well. but really your're referring the sweet sweet verb you're going to perform together.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 August 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, grammarian whizzes to thread after all.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 August 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

90. Hit: Ali G is a hit in the US; hit me with your best shot; Ali G is a hit show.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

91. Blank: His gun had one blank in it; I blanked when the teacher called on me; I gave the teacher a blank stare.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

92. Gross: I buy Q-tips by the gross; I gross a lot of money; used Q-tips are gross.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 9 August 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorrry to drag out yellow again, but it can be used as a verb. My white shirt yellowed in the laundry. The white paint on my house has yellowed over the years, etc... Go Tuomas!

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

93. suck
94. screw

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, but use suck and screw as adjectives without addy "y" or "ed" to them

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

'Screw flicks' and 'suck girls' are both things I've encountered in late night porno excursions.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Both are compound nouns.

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I wasn't paying attention.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Hrm.
Snow ball and fuck buddy, well, it could be argued that you could make those compound nouns by joining the words together ("adj that is a noun" + "noun"), hence compound. Nouns *can* be used as adjectives to "define or describe another noun": house fly, porch light, snow ball. The first noun becomes, through the magic of grammar, an adjective b/c it's "describing a noun" (which is the definition of an adjective.) The adjective/noun then joins the noun in some grammatical unholy evolution and become the compound noun: housefly, porchlight, snowball. Fuck buddy is slang, really - I think that's what makes it confusing. I'd say it's short for the gerund "fucking" simply b/c fucking buddy just makes things even more confusing. The fucking fuck is fucking fucked. But I love it.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty: Come here, my pretty; I'm going to pretty up the place; that's pretty (and also adverb: pretty big)

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

hollow

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

nice one.
stone - a skipping stone, to stone someone to death, stone cold (steve austin)
This has now made me wonder (afresh) about the noun/adj thing - just because a word goes in front of the noun does not make it the adj. See French. So, in "stone cold", cold could be called the adjective and stone the noun. Same with snow ball and fuck buddy (ball of snow, buddy of fuck(ing)). Stopping now.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to see a short with that one short motherfucker in it and the box office shorted me! fuckers.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The fell plot fell afoul of foot soldiers on the barren fell.

― youn, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yes stone cold steve austin!!! although cold here is kinda an adjective? is a word that describes an adjective an adjective??? in "stone cold" here "stone cold" could just be like "very cold"?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I said I was stopping, Ken! But, yeah.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

don't stop!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

100. pop "a bottle of pop" "popped my load" "pop music"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

101. brief "give me a brief" "brief me" "brief moment"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

102. minute "one minute" "minutes the meeting" "minute proportions"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

103. second "one second" "i second that" "second chance"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

~~104. poker "i love poker" "poker face" "she loves it when i pok'er"~~

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Lifter leg and poker.

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

104. Intern
"The intern interned the illegal alien, then ate his intern* organs."

*archaic: internal

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

105. murder "i think we're looking at a murder here" "i'm going to murder her one day" "traffic was murder!"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

106. cut "he's got a cut" "he cut himself" "he's cut"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

107. faint "she's in a faint" "she's fainted" "faint idea"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

108. slight - "that was a slight" "to slight the orders" "slight structure"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

109. excelsior "i got 5 excelsiors in a day" "haha wow i got excelsiored" "that burrito was excelsior"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

110. bitter "a pint of bitter please" "that bittered me" "that bitter was er.. bitter!"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

111. butter "a pint of butter please" "he buttered me" "them kicks are butter!"

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugar - If you put some sugar in my tea and sugar the cereal, you can be my sugar daddy.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

113. fit - "he's having a fit" "that really fits me" "you're fit, but gosh don't you know it"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

114. Dick - You dick, stop dicking around. What a dickhead.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

115. head - "i love heads" "i know where this is headed" "head teacher"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

116. square "you call that a square? that's a rectangle at best" "ronaldo squared it to van nistelrooy who made no mistake and put it into the net" "he wants to love he wants to care, but when the girls hear that they think he's so square"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Screen: I screen my calls 'cause that Chu fella keeps calling me about grammar porn; He's a star of stage and screen; I've seen his screen test, and phwoar! (yeah, compound noun, but I've moved past that distinction due to my spock-like reasoning. hahar.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So are most such words of Germanic rather than Latin origins?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread was right next to one of the "pull" threads.

"he has a lot of pull around here"
"pull the lever"
"he made a pull swing there, bob"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

119. empty - "clear out the empties" "empty out the pub" "drinking with an empty stomach"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

120. whack - "give it a good whack" "i whacked it good" "Fuck all those nights you thought you broke my back, Well guess what yo, your sex was whack"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

121. cross "jesus died on a cross" "ooh phil mitchell crossed him good" "i'm crossed"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

122. round "dude it's your round" "round it to the nearest pound?" "this ball is round"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

oh no, damn the hide hidden message option!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

"phil mitchell died on the cross for our sins"

― Frogm@n Henry, Friday, 9 September 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

123. Express. Against my express wishes, you included "Express Yourself" and "Trans Europa Express" on the same mixtape.

― brianiac (briania), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

His dread presence fills me with dread. I dread to think what he will do next.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

(124)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

125. out - "oooh he has several outs in this poker hand" "haha i outed him last night" "howwwzzzat??!?! HE'S OUT!!!"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

126. sick "eew there's sick all over the floor" "she gagged and then sicked all over him" "eew man, that's sick"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

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