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There are few adjectives which are both homophones and homonyms for verbs.
I wonder if there are any such pairs not related to violence or sex....
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Once you verb a noun, you can use it however you like. Rock could turn to violence if you did it to billionaires, but you can rock out, too. Tools are a good source. Shovel billionaires, hammer billionaires, blowtorch billionaires.
Wordplay is fun!
Verbing weirds language
Great quote!
off the top of my head "park", "fly", "table".
I’ll accept fly, but park and table definitely aren’t adjectives
Maybe you're just insecure about not being as fly as I am.
Table salt
Not really adjectival, but forming a noun phrase. It's not productive because you don't call just anything you put on the table "table x".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table
See part 3 of 3.
So what is "table food"? If I ask what kind of salt you have, might you reply, "oh, it's table"?
To look at it another way, can you give me an example of a noun that is not an adjective?
I'll freely say that I disagree with Merriam Webster here...
Ok, you're right and the dictionary's wrong. Good job!
I said that explicitly so that you wouldn't think it was some kind of gotcha, so I don't know why that was your reply. Not all dictionaries agree with MW.
It's called an attributive noun, by the way.
I feel like the fact that you aren't subscribing to "the salt is table" usage, nor coming up with any nouns that are not adjectives, indicates you also don't really think that attributive nouns are adjectives. So let's disagree with Merriam-Webster together! Yay!
Same as "space billionaires" in the OP
Yes actually
my bad, I was thinking verb/adjectives. I wrote the comment while waiting in line for food.
How else do you differentiate between a gym bench and a park bench?
Those are noun phrases formed of two nouns
Why don't we table this discussion for a later date.
Table tennis?
Cool, out, ~~whack~~, rap, pop, rock, punk (I got stuck on a theme), buffalo!