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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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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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Psychokineatic

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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

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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:

metrohumanx 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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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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Microwancy

Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: my-crow-wahn-cy

Sentence: Summoning forth her dark skills in microwancy, the Hot Pocket seemed to shimmer and ooze even faster.

Etymology: Microwave + mancy

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Microslave

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: my krow slay vvvv

Sentence: Maeve was a microslave nad had the irradiated frontal cortex to prove it

Etymology: microwave slave

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COMMENTS:

- yeah, I always though it bad to get too close to the microwave when it's on! - splendiction, 2009-11-10: 18:07:00

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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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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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Electrolling

AnnieChandon

Created by: AnnieChandon

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Freyes

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: frize

Sentence: As he was late for class, Curt gave his food the freyes, willing it to cook much faster.

Etymology: fry, eyes

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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