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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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Microwancy

Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: my-crow-wahn-cy

Sentence: Summoning forth her dark skills in microwancy, the Hot Pocket seemed to shimmer and ooze even faster.

Etymology: Microwave + mancy

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Chaperoast

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌʃæpəˈɹoʊst/

Sentence: When it came to cooking, he was the ultimate meddler, kibitzing over anyone's shoulder as they cooked. Even when he was alone in the kitchen, he'd chaperoast the food as it cooked, occasionally giving it advice about the best way to boil, bake, or fry.

Etymology: From chaperon + roast

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Dishfulthinking

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: DISHFUHL-thingk-ing

Sentence: Roxie planned to impress Bob's new boss by cooking for him a meal fit for a god. But the evening quickly turned into a noshtradamian nightmare, when Roxie, following the recipe given to her by her best friend, added spam rather than ham to the dish. The anticipated ambrosia became in a minute a shambrosia, leaving Roxie, to wonder whether she had been the victim of gastronimical gall or simply of a careless case of "cordon blur". When Bob arrived home he found her in front of the microwave, quickly trying to heat-up a meal labelled "Feast in Five Minutes." It looked liked a cesserole, made from the flotsyum you'd find in a fridgeridoo: it was all desperate dishfulthinking.

Etymology: Blend of DISH: n. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food, especially prepared food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." --Shak. & WISHFUL THINKING –n. interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx WOW! What a corucopia of originality. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:08:00

metrohumanx I meant "cornucopia"...as in: "That sentence was cornucopious". - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:09:00

Does Roxie spamalot? Cute word! - Nosila, 2008-07-01: 12:38:00

great word Ozzie - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-01: 13:44:00

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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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Lookincookin

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: look in cook in

Sentence: Fritz was the King of LookinCookin. He could stare at food and change it's metabollic state. He was famous for His HopeCuisine, his lookerycookery,Doc; his WatchPotch. He had actually won prizes for his searing glances, his appraising braising, his frowning browning, his spying frying,his gazing glazing, his simmering good looks and his eyeing pieing. Yes, Fritz was definitely the StareMeister of Cooking. Any meal he could fix with a stare...

Etymology: Lookin (looking:the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually) & cookin (Cooking:the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx Hahahaha Thank You... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:02:00

Fritz, a veritable radar ranger. Good one! - Mustang, 2008-07-01: 08:06:00

Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:37:00

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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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Foodookinese

Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: foodoo like voodoo, kinese like in telekinesis

Sentence: He used his skills in Foodokinesis too get his hot dog barking quicker and louder !

Etymology: food + voodoo + telekinesis = foodookinese

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Telecooknetics

joearcher

Created by: joearcher

Pronunciation: telly-cook-neticks

Sentence: I was so desperate for my beans on toast I was using telecooknetics to speed up the toaster

Etymology:

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Psychowave

artr

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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Psychrowave

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SYK-ro-wave

Sentence: Werner believed he had the power to cook foods faster by means of psychrowaving it, elevating electron activity within the food thru telepathy.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'Psyche' (the mental or psychological structure of a person, especially as a motive force) and 'microwave' (an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency) or (microwave oven)

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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