- How come no one is halloweening this year?
halloweening
verb; derivation
To dress up in costumes and go out on Halloween door-to-door for candy (trick-or-treating) Since there was a big thunderstorm this year, none of the kids in the neighborhood actually went trick-or-treating on Halloween. My roommate somehow came up with the word “halloweening,” probably because she couldn’t remember the term trick-or-treating at that particular moment, and changing the noun to a verb was the easiest thing to do to get her message across. Adding the suffix –ing to nouns is also an easy way to change words from nouns to verbs. The etymology of Halloween is from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Etymology : from Halloween +ing (suffix forming verbal derivatives). Halloween was shortened from All-Hallow-Even, the eve of All Hallows' or All Saints'; the last night of October. In the Old Celtic calendar, the year began on November 1st so that the last evening of October was ‘old-year's night’, the night of all the witches, which the Church changed to the Eve of All Saints
Source : My Roommate
Last modified: 10 June 2008