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DEFINITION: v. To pace, stare or drool in front of your stove or microwave, in an effort to use sheer willpower to make your food cook faster. n. A watched pot, pie or pudding.
Verboticisms
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Telefry
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: tĕl'ə-frī
Sentence: We would have been out of luck with the broken microwave had it not been for my keen ability to telefry the tv dinners.
Etymology: Tele ('far') fry ('To cook with direct heat')
Macrowait
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: Ma-cro-way-t
Sentence: I know "a watched pot never boils" but I still can never resist the urge to marcowait.
Etymology: Microwave, Macro, Wait
Psychowave
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sīkōwāv
Sentence: Wendall thinks he can control the cook time of his microwave with his psychowave powers. If he concentrates, he can cut the time it takes to make popcorn by several seconds. He has tried using his mental powers for other things like affecting the flight of the football when the Ravens attempt a field goal but that hasn\'t worked so well.
Etymology: psycho (relating to the mind or psychology) + microwave (short for microwave oven)
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COMMENTS:
Heh! beat me to it. :) - galwaywegian, 2009-11-10: 06:19:00
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Bellykinesis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: belēkinēsis
Sentence: Jordan believes that he possesses bellykinesis. When he is hungry his gut makes more noise than an amorous bullfrog. He somehow believes that the resulting sound waves added to microwaves will lower the cooking time of his meal so he presses his ample tummy against the nuke box. Jordan was asked to not return to his corner sandwich shop when he tried to practice delikinesis.
Etymology: belly (the stomach, esp. as representing the body\'s need for food) + telekinesis (the supposed ability to move objects at a distance by mental power or other nonphysical means)
Mindcrowave
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: mynd-crow-wayv
Sentence: when she walked into the kitchen she found Allan standing in front of the oven, desperately trying to mindcrowave the osso buco in time for dinner
Etymology: mind, microwave
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COMMENTS:
clever! - emmyb2, 2007-04-24: 11:12:00
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Neuromicropathy
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /nu-row-my-crop-uh-thee/
Sentence: "By the pure power of neuromicropathy Ted's food was cooking faster than ever. He knew he was on to something here - if he could only stare through the food..."
Etymology: Neurology + microwave + homeopathy
Freyes
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: frize
Sentence: As he was late for class, Curt gave his food the freyes, willing it to cook much faster.
Etymology: fry, eyes
Jeangrelieve
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: jeen - gree - leev
Sentence: Bobby can keep on staring at that piece of shit but jeangrelieving, honestly, won't turn that pile of crap to a Louvre masterpiece.
Etymology: Jean Grey (X-Men) + believe
Hynowave
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: TYPO! HYPNOWAVE hip/no/wave
Sentence: Judy was so convinced she had the ability to hypnowave her Lean Cuisines, that she didn't worry when she realized she could not afford the electric bill this month.
Etymology: hypnotize food into believing it is cooking with microwaves emitted from eyeballs
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COMMENTS:
Damn! I meant HYPNOWAVE! - lumina, 2008-07-01: 00:32:00
I really like HYPNOWAVE.
I find the word MESMERRADIATING.
- metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:14:00
Clever blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:39:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James
Mustang - 2008-07-01: 08:09:00
The chef was no doubt a man of principle who would stick by his convections.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James