Name: Use Animals as VERBS in English! “to parrot”, “to yak”, “to hog”...
Uploaded: 2025-08-19T17:53:54.000Z
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Now, I'm just going to mess with your head a little bit, here.

I'm going to blow your mind because I'm going to give you something that you know as an animal, as a noun, and by the magic of confusing English, it's going to now be a verb.

They're animals, but now we're going to use them as a verb.

Also, check out my lesson on the next step, using these animals with phrasal verbs, but I digress.

I don't know if everyone else knows, but I despise internet...

Like, all these people using the same words that other people use have some creativity and some originality to you people.

And, you know, just to get the attention of everyone out there, this new thing that's maybe not so new, hock toey.

People like to spell it like this, but they're using my first verb here, hock.

So, maybe you know hock toey to mean to spit.

I always said horkaloogie, but it's hockaloogie, and it just means, you know, spitting.

So, for some unknown reason, hock to has become super popular.

Don't know why, but usually at a market, not in a legitimate store most of the time, so people go to markets to hock their wares.

Pop-up markets are really famous these days.

Farmer's markets, craft markets, go check them out.

They're going to hock their wares to you, they're going to sell something, and you're going to buy something.

If you were around in the 1950s or 60s and knew that song, amazing.

So, you could say, like, oh my god, he yakked all over the bus.

Also, there's a baseball bat, but it also can mean to hit something.

So, oh, one of the things that I hate the most in the world are flies, house flies.

I hate flies, so I try to bat at the flies, and they never go away.

So, if you guys are looking to send me a gift, please don't send me flies.

Please just send me money so I can buy some fly swatters.

So, bat, one meaning means to hit something or try to hit it.

If you bat your eyelashes, it means you blink a lot to look attractive and flirt with people.

So, bat means to flutter, like a butterfly.

What are you people doing with your eyelashes, man?

They're like fucking caterpillars on your face.

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Use Animals as VERBS in English! “to parrot”, “to yak”, “to hog”...

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