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'Wow! My brainwaves are melting cheese!'

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.

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Guardefrost

Created by: iwasatripwire

Pronunciation: gar-dee-frost

Sentence: Guardefrosting Hot Pockets has become a regular hobby of mine, and it works! I've managed to reduce microwave time from 4 minutes to 3:45.

Etymology: guard + defrost

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Mindoverbatter

Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: meye-nd-oh-fer-bath-er

Sentence: the souffle rose due to her extraordinary mindoverbatter powers. Now she no longer uses an oven. Al gore is making a documentary about it and hoping she can refreeze Glacier National park.

Etymology: mind- the brain over- prepositioon. matter - as in material of any sort. batter - material of a baking / cooking sort.

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COMMENTS:

Great play on words! - Stevenson0, 2007-04-24: 12:43:00

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Bellykinesis

artr

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)

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Focuspocus

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: foh-kuhs-poh-kuhs

Sentence: He had the wing of a red wattler, the milk from a bovine and the sauce of a Newman (Paul), with a little focuspocus on the Frazier Grill his meal would be complete in no time.

Etymology: Focus - Hocuspocus

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Dishfullthinking

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dish/ful/think/ing

Sentence: With only minutes left before his guests arrived he resorted to dishfullthinking to cook the frozen lasagne in time for dinner

Etymology: wishfull thinking + dish (as in dish up food/cook)+ dishfull as in full dish

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COMMENTS:

funny! - emmyb2, 2007-04-24: 11:11:00

Best word of the day!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-04-24: 12:44:00

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Macrowait

playdohheart

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

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Brainwarm

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: brayne-warm

Sentence: Bill thought he could brainwarm and therefore save electricity. It sounded like a roastboast to me.

Etymology: Brain + warm + brainstorm

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So that's why I get so many luke-warm ideas when I'm watching the microwave... - wordmeister, 2007-04-24: 15:38:00

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Tapiocultism

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: tap-ee-oh-cult-ism

Sentence: Greg never went hungry. He could speed up cooking times by using the right spell from his book on tapiocultism.

Etymology: tapioca (a thickening substance in food) + occult (of magic or supernatural arts)

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Eggon

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: eh gone

Sentence: he would regularly eggon the food in his microwave, convinced the warm feeling in his head was his brain adding extra heat to the oven, rather than vice versa.

Etymology: to egg on, to encourage

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COMMENTS:

petaj Nice one - but I don't have any votes left today :-( - petaj, 2007-04-24: 23:39:00

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Hotpocketing

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: hot-pock-et-ing

Sentence: Jack was hotpocketing infront of the microwave waiting for his dinner.

Etymology: hotpocket (a microwave food)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-24: 00:01:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-10: 00:14:00
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James