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)

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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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