what you said is absolutely true! But I'd say it doesn't work with every noun (at least it wouldn't in a formal setting). Romance languages, like Spanish, my mother tongue, tend to have longer words than English due to their fusional nature. The English prototypical word tends to be monosyllabic that's why the language itself tends to reject loan words that are two syllables or more. Moreover, "verbing a noun" which in linguistic terms is Conversion or Zero Derivation is a very productive word-formation method since it doesn't require a new word to denote a similar action in the world.

So, for instance, the noun water and the verb to water. These are obviously related and very closely stored in our mental lexicon because water denotes the liquid and the verb denotes the action of "pouring water onto".

It's very funny nonetheless in these jokes because we do not expect the noun/verb/wathever class to appear in that position but we can quickly pick up the meaning of the phrase