# If your user name became a verb, what would be mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933 "2006-10-02T04:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/21 "2006-10-02T15:04:48Z")
I dunno, but I fully support the right of the people to keep and Bear\_Nennos ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/22 "2006-10-02T15:12:18Z")
Mostlyclueless: (mostlycluelessed, mostlycluelessing) Performing a drive-by post with very little use or relevance to anyone involved. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/23 "2006-10-02T15:29:39Z")
Mine already is; so cherry picked from [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com): 6. self-important; pompous. 7. rigid or strait-laced in attitudes, esp. in matters of personal behavior. & 9. ill-tempered; sulky. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/24 "2006-10-02T19:41:12Z")
To be _bibliocatted:_ Upon sitting down to read something, you find a cat takes up residence on your lap, partially blocking whatever you wanted to read. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/25 "2006-10-02T19:46:00Z")
To **Silenus** is to insert one portion of your anatomy into another portion of your anatomy on a semi-regular basis. This ranges from foot-mouth to head-ass. I’m afraid the action is chronic. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/26 "2006-10-02T20:18:29Z")
To Rysdad: Make a very long and involved post containing substantial amounts of math, and, invariably, do the math wrong. “I Rysdadded that equation to the max.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/27 "2006-10-02T21:30:02Z")
My wife already uses my real name to indicate _A well-intentioned but poorly performed home repair or improvement; a botched job._ ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/28 "2006-10-02T23:11:32Z")
**Icarus** To attempt something glorius and monumental (fly to the Sun) with inadequate resources (on wings of wax) and thereby fail spectacularly (wax melts, fall back to Earth). ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/29 "2006-10-02T23:16:22Z")
Mine is derived from a verb, a Latin one - \*cunctor \* - meaning to delay: [Fabius Maximus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunctator) ---
**Author:** ![GeorgiaBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GeorgiaBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GeorgiaBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/30 "2006-10-03T00:07:54Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] :smack: no it isn’t it’s a noun you stupid stupid man :smack: [/QUOTE] It was a verb when I was in college. Meant “to barf”. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/31 "2006-10-03T01:54:23Z")
To persistenty acknowledge the elephant in the room until you get fired. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/32 "2006-10-03T02:05:27Z")
Honestly, my user name isn’t really dirty but I can’t think of any other way to make it into a verb. It would probably be a notable one too. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/33 "2006-10-03T03:10:06Z")
[QUOTE=bundykala] …but I can’t wait till **Hal Briston** finds this thread. 😃 [/QUOTE] Yeah, I guess mine is obvious. **briston** _(v.)_: To inadvertantly leave your boss a voice mail of you singing badly. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/34 "2006-10-03T04:20:06Z")
**John DiFooled:** To completely and totally delude yourself. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/35 "2006-10-03T05:39:04Z")
_Do you really wanna **Thorp** me… Do you really wanna see me cry…_ ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/36 "2006-10-03T05:49:13Z")
Mine, of course, would be to kick all ya’ll in the ass so hard you start walking backwards. Except **Askia**. Dude’s Mo is definitely Jo, if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/37 "2006-10-03T14:38:18Z")
[QUOTE=Bites When Provoked] I suspect little would change. 😃 [/QUOTE] Maybe you and me shouldn’t be in the same room together 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/38 "2006-10-03T15:06:24Z")
Hmm. Schrod the Bod, ain’t that Odd? If schrod is a verb, then there you go. Mods, if you stop listening to your iPods, be a god, don’t nod, sod this er… post. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/39 "2006-10-03T15:10:58Z")
Anaamika meaning “nameless girl” I suppose if you were Anaamikaed, you’d be the victim of identity theft. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/40 "2006-10-03T15:23:55Z")
My real name already is a verb. No, I’m not telling you what it is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933.md?page=3)