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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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Braincrowave

Created by: pinoyhunk08

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metrohumanx BRAINCOWAVE is OK- but it sounds like the name of an appliance. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:10:00

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Psychook

Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation: SI kuk

Sentence: As grandma always said, a container of water subjected to psychookery will never reach or exceed 100 degrees celsius.

Etymology: psychic + cook

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Psychowave

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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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Heh! beat me to it. :) - galwaywegian, 2009-11-10: 06:19:00

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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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Concenbake

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kon - sen - bayk

Sentence: Trudy needed to have the cake ready for the baby shower but a series of events put her behind. She looked at the cake through the oven window and began to concenbake so that it would bake faster; or so she believed.

Etymology: concentrate, bake

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bunderful - galwaywegian, 2009-11-10: 14:56:00

flantastic word - Nosila, 2009-11-10: 17:25:00

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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

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Cravewave

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: crave/wave

Sentence: When hunger completely occupies his mind, he cravewaves his food with a little help from the nuker.

Etymology: crave + microwave + brainwave

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COMMENTS:

Excellent word!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-24: 08:31:00

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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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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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Psychothermalize

Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Sigh-Ko-Thurm-A-Lies

Sentence: Dan psychothermalized the hotdog, to no effect

Etymology: Psyche; Thermal

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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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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