Hemingway

proper noun

1. 1

   A surname.

2. 2

   Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.

   […] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.

3. 3

   A town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States.

verb

1. 1

   To speak, write or behave in a Hemingwayesque manner.

   But there is no literary law that says thai — to set forth these beauties — the writers must first excel in the art of Hemingwaying.

   Ivens concluded his account with a remark that out-Hemingwayed Hemingway: 'I know that money is hard to make but dying is not easy either.

   That just-a-moment had hardly died away before Father turned and Hemingwayed Bogoljub so forcefully that the tobacconist was sent flying against the bookshelves.

   And as it turned out, he'd Hemingwayed his so-called past. Those tales he told about backpacking the two-thousand-mile-long Appalachian Trail while fighting off bears and wolves? The time at Pismo Beach when he punched out a shark to rescue a lifeguard? The stories were interesting the first few times I heard them but they paled with the retelling.

2. 2

   To study, or talk about, Ernest Hemingway.

   After Hemingway's death in 1961, he was bombarded with questions about the author and finally asked a reporter to let it be known that he was “Hemingwayed out!”

   Lena knew more about the missing stories than 98 percent of the people who Hemingwayed for a living.

   I said, “I'm a little Hemingwayed out, but we can go to Floridita after dinner if you'd like.”

Forms

past tense

Hemingwayed

past participle

Hemingwayed

present participle

Hemingwaying

third person singular

Hemingways