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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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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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An alltyme favourite! - splendiction, 2009-11-10: 18:01:00

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Cooklook

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: kook-look

Sentence: Unimpressed with the alacrity of his microwave to defrost his frozen burrito, Bob resorted to giving his mealcicle the cooklook, willing it with his mind to get done an astonishing .005 seconds faster.

Etymology: cook, look, and rhymes with cookbook

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petaj I suppose Bob also "looked steak knives" instead of daggers. - petaj, 2007-04-24: 05:33:00

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

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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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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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clever! - emmyb2, 2007-04-24: 11:12:00

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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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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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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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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

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Psycook

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: sigh + cook

Sentence: I've often tried to psycook my Hot Pockets, but it always still ends up taking 3 minutes anyway.

Etymology: psychic + cook

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This so good! - wordmeister, 2007-04-25: 10:23:00

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Culinlinger

Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: cul LIN ling ER

Sentence: Freddy’s culinlingering over his melting cheese-dog was partly due to his poor eating habits. He battled time, skipped meals, to become an over-bearing oaf in the kitchen. Leaning into the microwave, he imagined the appliance responded to his throbbing appetite with soothing efficiency.

Etymology: From: culinary and linger.

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culinmerry word - Nosila, 2009-11-10: 17:16:00

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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