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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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Brainwater
Created by: Emilpersia
Pronunciation: Brainwater, Brainwater is the water inside the brain. Like a orange the brain also got water inside it...
Sentence: Sciences have showen the human race that brainwater is real.
Etymology:
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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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)
Grillpower
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: gril pow er
Sentence: Aman's power to cook food quickly with his mind was quickly discovered and exploited. He could melt a smelt; toast a roast or stew a gnu. His grillpower was so strong that his girlfriend, Dinah, was afraid that he'd advertise this under her name. But he called his new cookers Amana...
Etymology: Grill (cook over a grill) & Willpower (the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior)
Acelerocallefy
Created by: emmyb2
Pronunciation: a-se-le-ro-ca-li-fy
Sentence: My acelerocallfying was of no use; the quiche still had 10 minutes left to bake.
Etymology: acelero--to accelerate callefy-to warm
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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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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Gloatmeal
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: glowt/meel
Sentence: His morning breakfast consisted of gloatmeal and juice
Etymology: gloat (stare) + oatmeal
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)
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
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