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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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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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COMMENTS:

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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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Telekitchenesis

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: telly-KITCH-en-e-sis

Sentence: Uri, if you really must use your telekitchenesis skills at least put them to good use. Save us some electricity instead of just bending spoons and forks.

Etymology: telekinesis + kitchen

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COMMENTS:

nice reference - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-24: 12:19:00

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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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Microslavering

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: my/crow/slave/ur/ing

Sentence: When conventional cooking wasn't fast enough he resorted to microslavering. It was messy but he made sure to wear a bib.

Etymology: microwave + slaver (drool or dribble)

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COMMENTS:

Nice ring about it! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:52:00

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Psychowave

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sīkōwāv

Sentence: Wendall thinks he can control the cook time of his microwave with his psychowave powers. If he concentrates, he can cut the time it takes to make popcorn by several seconds. He has tried using his mental powers for other things like affecting the flight of the football when the Ravens attempt a field goal but that hasn\'t worked so well.

Etymology: psycho (relating to the mind or psychology) + microwave (short for microwave oven)

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COMMENTS:

Heh! beat me to it. :) - galwaywegian, 2009-11-10: 06:19:00

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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