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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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Mindboiling
Created by: heb319
Pronunciation: mind-boy-ling
Sentence: He focused intently on soup in an attempt to mindboil it to the appropriate temparature in half the usual time.
Etymology: mind-using the power of the brain; boiling--heating up
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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Telecooknetics
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
Etymology:
Telefry
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')
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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COMMENTS:
I suppose Bob also "looked steak knives" instead of daggers. - petaj, 2007-04-24: 05:33:00
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Psychokineatic
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sy-ko-ken-eat-ic
Sentence: The Amazing Nino, the mentalist, tried to use his incredible psychokineatic powers to rush his lunch. Unfortunately, The Amazing Nino was no kitchen magician and he'd have to wait like everyone else.
Etymology: psychokinesis: the alteration of the state of an object by mental powers alone without physical intervention + eat
Focuspocus
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: foh-kuhs-poh-kuhs
Sentence: He had the wing of a red wattler, the milk from a bovine and the sauce of a Newman (Paul), with a little focuspocus on the Frazier Grill his meal would be complete in no time.
Etymology: Focus - Hocuspocus
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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Telekinvection
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: TELL-IH-KIN-VEC-SHUN
Sentence: Staring into the water did not hasten it's boiling, but gazing thru the microgrid convinced me that TELEKINVECTION was a force to be reckoned with....
Etymology: TELEKINESIS-affecting the properties of something using the formidable power of brainwaves. CONVECTION-an "old school" method of cooking using a direct heat source.
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COMMENTS:
TELEKINesis+conVECTION
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
- metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:01:00
A word to be reckoned with! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:35:00
LOL You need to write a book! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:15:00
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Braincrowave
Created by: pinoyhunk08
Pronunciation:
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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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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