Venmo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: After the Venmo mobile payment system. According to co-founder Andrew Kortina, the name was formed as a blend of Latin vēndere (“to sell”) + mobile, for the following reasons:
We were exploring the Latin root vendere “sell” and mo for mobile, but purely as a means to get to a name that (1) was short, 5-6 letters, (2) could be a verb, (3) didn’t have a unintuitive spelling, and (4) was cheap. Venmo was available on GoDaddy and met the important criteria, so we grabbed it.
Inflected forms:
form: Venmos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Venmos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Venmoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Venmoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Venmoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Venmo'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Venmo'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: venmo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An account on the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: It was part of a larger trend of monetizing the demand for unpaid emotional labor that became bigger and bigger after the 2016 election. At first, posting a Venmo or CashApp “for emotional labor” was something I noticed activists doing, usually Black women who were being asked to donate their time and expertise for free to the public, and even to private institutions with the budget to pay them.
His vest had a Kevin Bacon hashtag and a Venmo on it. “I have to give it to Doug, he is a hustler,” Briana said, eyeing the Venmo. “Doug would punch me in the face for a billion dollars.”
Where many bars published their staff’s Venmos and Cash Apps so that patrons could show some financial appreciation while they were out of work, Troupe429 went further. […] Each “Troupetender” card featured a cute headshot, a QR code linked to the employee’s online cash account, and a recipe for a cocktail.
A Venmo pops up. Jesse Desmond. I thought that was his voice.
Find PayPals, Venmos, or CashApps of BIPOC and randomly donate money as reparations.
Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?
gloss: To use the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system, originally principally for splitting bills such as for food, drinks, entertainment, and transportation.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Don’t want to bother splitting the brunch check five ways? Split it two ways instead, and three people will have some Venmoing to do.
We had only Venmoed once or twice in our short relationship, but I knew it was an app he used frequently with his friends.
Venmoing may be standard, but here’s why I’ve switched.
She's the keeper of all the receipts and bills (and hopefully sees the benefit this will be if she's using a rewards credit card) and at the end of the trip she divides the total and everyone Venmos!
gloss: To transfer money to someone using the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
informal
examples: "Keeps to himself," he said, "Venmos the rent. Never calls to fix nothin'." In other words, a perfect tenant.
Ariana Grande is lending a hand to help her fans in need amid the current coronavirus pandemic.
Jillian had Venmoed me half my fee that morning.
I know his occasional emails and the few times he Venmoed me money will never compare to what Mom does for me.
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