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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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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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COMMENTS:
clever! - emmyb2, 2007-04-24: 11:12:00
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Watchedpotamy
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: watched-pot-am-ee
Sentence: Jason enjoyed indulging his watchedpotamy by microwaving a series of 20 pound frozen turkies on defrost setting.
Etymology: a watched pot never boils...
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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COMMENTS:
bunderful - galwaywegian, 2009-11-10: 14:56:00
flantastic word - Nosila, 2009-11-10: 17:25:00
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Jeangrelieve
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: jeen - gree - leev
Sentence: Bobby can keep on staring at that piece of shit but jeangrelieving, honestly, won't turn that pile of crap to a Louvre masterpiece.
Etymology: Jean Grey (X-Men) + believe
Braincrowave
Created by: pinoyhunk08
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
BRAINCOWAVE is OK- but it sounds like the name of an appliance. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:10:00
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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
Neuromicropathy
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /nu-row-my-crop-uh-thee/
Sentence: "By the pure power of neuromicropathy Ted's food was cooking faster than ever. He knew he was on to something here - if he could only stare through the food..."
Etymology: Neurology + microwave + homeopathy
Nukenesis
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nook ken ees sis
Sentence: Luke always felt his superior intellect allowed him to conduct experiments. He used his enormous brain to try and speed up the cooking of his lunch by what he called nukenesis. And yes his cheese melted twice as fast through this power. He ran boasting to his mother, whose only comment was: "Use your Lukenesis instead and persuade someone to give you a job? You are 32 and still living off you father and I!"
Etymology: Nuke (to zap;microwave food) & Kinesis (a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation)
Psygoocazer
Created by: mitchchick
Pronunciation: s-eye-goo-cAYzer
Sentence: I psygoocazered that piece of cheese on my hotdog.
Etymology:
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