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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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Mindoverbatter
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: meye-nd-oh-fer-bath-er
Sentence: the souffle rose due to her extraordinary mindoverbatter powers. Now she no longer uses an oven. Al gore is making a documentary about it and hoping she can refreeze Glacier National park.
Etymology: mind- the brain over- prepositioon. matter - as in material of any sort. batter - material of a baking / cooking sort.
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COMMENTS:
Great play on words! - Stevenson0, 2007-04-24: 12:43:00
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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:
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:
Psychowave
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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Culinlinger
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: cul LIN ling ER
Sentence: Freddy’s culinlingering over his melting cheese-dog was partly due to his poor eating habits. He battled time, skipped meals, to become an over-bearing oaf in the kitchen. Leaning into the microwave, he imagined the appliance responded to his throbbing appetite with soothing efficiency.
Etymology: From: culinary and linger.
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COMMENTS:
culinmerry word - Nosila, 2009-11-10: 17:16:00
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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
Tapiocultism
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: tap-ee-oh-cult-ism
Sentence: Greg never went hungry. He could speed up cooking times by using the right spell from his book on tapiocultism.
Etymology: tapioca (a thickening substance in food) + occult (of magic or supernatural arts)
Lookincookin
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: look in cook in
Sentence: Fritz was the King of LookinCookin. He could stare at food and change it's metabollic state. He was famous for His HopeCuisine, his lookerycookery,Doc; his WatchPotch. He had actually won prizes for his searing glances, his appraising braising, his frowning browning, his spying frying,his gazing glazing, his simmering good looks and his eyeing pieing. Yes, Fritz was definitely the StareMeister of Cooking. Any meal he could fix with a stare...
Etymology: Lookin (looking:the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually) & cookin (Cooking:the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
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COMMENTS:
Hahahaha Thank You... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-01: 06:02:00
Fritz, a veritable radar ranger. Good one! - Mustang, 2008-07-01: 08:06:00
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-02: 03:37:00
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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
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- 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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Foodookinese
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: foodoo like voodoo, kinese like in telekinesis
Sentence: He used his skills in Foodokinesis too get his hot dog barking quicker and louder !
Etymology: food + voodoo + telekinesis = foodookinese
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