English
Hooverize
From Hoover + -ize, named after Herbert Hoover, who, as head of the Food and Drug Administration during World War I, encouraged Americans to ration food.
Formed from Hoover + -ize
Proto-Indo-European *kewp- ‘to arch, bend, curve, vault’
…
Middle High German hoube
German Haube ‘hood, bonnet’
German Hube
German Huber
English Hoover
The story
From Hoover + -ize, named after Herbert Hoover, who, as head of the Food and Drug Administration during World War I, encouraged Americans to ration food. Apparently coined in the poem reproduced below.
Today it means
verb To be economical in the use of a resource, particularly food.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hooverize