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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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Hotpocketing

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: hot-pock-et-ing

Sentence: Jack was hotpocketing infront of the microwave waiting for his dinner.

Etymology: hotpocket (a microwave food)

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Telefry

zrotv

Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: tĕl'ə-frī

Sentence: We would have been out of luck with the broken microwave had it not been for my keen ability to telefry the tv dinners.

Etymology: Tele ('far') fry ('To cook with direct heat')

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Mesmerradiate

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: mez - mur - AID - ee - ait

Sentence: Ever the technogeek, Clarence believed if he could mesmerradiate with sufficient concentration that he could actually speed up the cooking process of his microwave.

Etymology: Blend of mesmerize (to compel by fascination) and irradiate (to heat with radiant energy)

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx MESMERRADIATE is great! Good one, Centurion! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:05:00

You are getting hungry...you are going to cook faster...and when Isnap my fingers you won't remember any of it! Good word, Mustang. - Nosila, 2008-07-01: 12:41:00

I'm mesmerized. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:36:00

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Pacebaker

karenanne

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: PASE bay ker

Sentence: Phil's wife calls him "The Pacebaker" because he walks a regular rhythm, back and forth, back and forth, "thump, thump, thump," the whole time his food is in the microwave. He seems to think he can keep it going and urge it along.

Etymology: pace + baker, a play on the word "pacemaker"

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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)

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Gloatmeal

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: glowt/meel

Sentence: His morning breakfast consisted of gloatmeal and juice

Etymology: gloat (stare) + oatmeal

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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)

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Telecook

Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: Tell-e-cook

Sentence: He would telecook before the microwave when impatient and hungry.

Etymology: Tele-to project Cook-to heat in preparation for consumption.

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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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Very apt; good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:38:00

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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)

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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