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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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Fryovision
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: fry-o-vi-shun
Sentence: I am sure that my super powered fryovision makes the food in the microwave cook faster.
Etymology: fry + o + vision
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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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
Mindcrowave
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: myned-crow-wayv
Sentence: As time was running out, he had know choice but to try mindcrowaving his popcorn.
Etymology: mind, microwave
Cravewave
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: crave/wave
Sentence: When hunger completely occupies Joe's mind, he cravewaves his food with a little help from the nuker.
Etymology: CRAVEWAVE - verb - from CRAVE (to long for; want greatly; desire eagerly) + MICROWAVE (to cook, or prepare in a microwave oven)
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COMMENTS:
Very apt; good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:38:00
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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
Microslave
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: my krow slay vvvv
Sentence: Maeve was a microslave nad had the irradiated frontal cortex to prove it
Etymology: microwave slave
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COMMENTS:
- yeah, I always though it bad to get too close to the microwave when it's on! - splendiction, 2009-11-10: 18:07:00
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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:
WOW! What a corucopia of originality. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:08:00
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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Kilnthyme
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kiln tyme
Sentence: When he came home from school, Sammy was always starving. He ran to the fridge, grabbed whatever looked good, seasoned it and stuck it in the oven to warm, so he could eat soon. He believed if he lay on the floor and watched it through the window in the stove, he could compel it to be ready quicker. The first time his Mom saw him lying there, she yelled, "Yo, Prone Ranger! What are you doing?" To which Sammy replied, "Me? Why I'm just kilnthyme!"
Etymology: Kiln (Oven ) & Thyme (Savoury herb;leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables;any of various of the genus Thymus) & Play on Killin' time (To spend time doing nothing in particular in order that it seems to pass more quickly).
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COMMENTS:
An alltyme favourite! - splendiction, 2009-11-10: 18:01:00
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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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COMMENTS:
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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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