“I don’t want to adult today.” “Have you ever Googled yourself?” If you’ve uttered one of these examples, congratulations — you’re an expert at antimeria. That’s the name for the linguistic concept of using a word that is normally one part of speech as if it were another. In English, it most often happens by turning nouns into verbs. Antimeria is often called “verbing,” which is an easier way to remember this idea.