Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v. To prepare or process food in a manner that renders it unpalatable, indigestible and completely inedible. n., Food which has been prepared in such a way that it is unfit for human, or even non-human, consumption.
Verboticisms
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Sheeshkebab
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sheesh ke bab
Sentence: When Stephanie got creative in the kitchen, it was frightening. Her lamb kebabs became sheeshkebabs when she'd experiment with various rodents as a main course. What's next, Green eggs & Hamsters? Yuck!
Etymology: Shish kebab (cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables)& Sheesh (interjection used to describe disgust or distaste)
Swillify
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: swill-if-eye
Sentence: Joan swillified her bouillabaisse to such a degree that she won an award from the James 'soup-in-Beard' Foundation. When she proudly placed the award next to her Gold Medal Horrible Haggis trophy, her husband simply sighed and put another frozen dinner in the microwave.
Etymology: swill + petrify
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COMMENTS:
I love SWILLIFY! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-14: 02:45:00
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Palaterrible
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: paləterəbəl
Sentence: Joan hates to waste anything. This includes food that she has kept a bit too long. Just last week she tried to pass off on her boy friend a palaterrible sandwich, made with sticky coldcuts that were making their own mayonnaise. He thought better of it and went out for lunch.
Etymology: palatable (pleasant to taste) + terrible (extremely and shockingly or distressingly bad or serious)
Malodorouseate
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: mal.o.dor.ous.se.ate mal-ō'dur-us-zē-āt"
Sentence: I enjoyed a scene in the movie 'Wrong Turn' where the captured lady was forced to eat malodorouseating stew. Or was it spew?
Etymology: Malodorous - bad stinking smell Nauseate - cause to feel sick or disgusted
Alacommode
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: a/la/come/ode
Sentence: A local eatery serves their dinner alacommode. The chairs which are really toilet seats come in very handy to cleanse the palate between courses.
Etymology: a la mode + commode (toilet)
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COMMENTS:
Grossed me out! Sure got the point across! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-14: 11:24:00
Very interesting word and sentence. Sure give the occupational health and safety experts food for thought! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-14: 19:05:00
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Terramisu
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: terəmēsoō
Sentence: People love to invite Ruth to their parties. She is witty and funny. They did however learn their lesson about inviting her to a pot luck dinner. She brought what she referred to as tiramisu. Her fellow party goers called it terramisu. Being the creative person she is, Ruth did some substituting when she found herself short a few ingredients, hotdog buns for the lady fingers, tea for the coffee, and cottage cheese for the mascarpone. The final touch of chocolate chips subbing for powdered chocolate made it look like her dessert was infested with bugs. Everybody told Ruth how **interesting** her treat looked but nobody was brave enough to try a single bite.
Etymology: terror or terrible (your choice) + tiramisu (an Italian dessert consisting of layers of sponge cake soaked in coffee and brandy or liqueur with powdered chocolate and mascarpone cheese)
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COMMENTS:
terrafic term - Nosila, 2010-04-08: 15:31:00
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Chucksuey
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: ch uuk soo ee
Sentence: Everyone at the party agreed to order pizza after they tried the chucksuey Martha made and 3 people ended up in the restroom immediately with vomiting and other problems.
Etymology: Chuck - as in up-chuck or vomit. Suey - as in chop suey.
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - Nosila, 2011-08-19: 11:45:00
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Decocsecrate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: di/kokt/se/crate
Sentence: Jenny managed to decocsecrate whatever she cooked no matter how fine the cut of meat was, or how closely she followed the recipe.
Etymology: DECOCSECRATE - verb - from DECOCT (to cook, or boil food to extract the flavour) + DESECRATE (to destroy, or violate the sacredness of)
Nauseats
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: naw-zheets
Sentence: Alta's cooking was so disgusting that it was named nauseats by the poor wretches who came to dinner unaware of her atrocious cooking skills.
Etymology: nausea:the sensation that preceeds vomiting; feeling of disgust or revision + eats: food
Cookacle
Created by: pebblekicker
Pronunciation: coo-kac-el
Sentence: Meg invited us over for dinner. We should never have accepted the invitation knowing that she is such a bad cook. The dinner was such a cookacle.
Etymology: cook+debacle
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by zebrahdh. Thank you zebrahdh. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-01-14: 18:53:00
Great gross in your cartoon today ... from the critter's butt sticking up ... to the facial expressions ... to the hair on the bite on the fork ... even the colors were putrid combinations!
I'm glad to hear you find my color sense is putrid. ~ James
bananabender - 2008-01-14: 20:49:00
What a regurgitreat of a day in Verbotomyland! The creative juices have been flowing freely today. Now, what am I gonna cook for dinner???
We could always eat our words... ~ James
zebrahdh - 2008-01-17: 18:50:00
That's great illustration! Thanks for using my suggestion!
yellowbird - 2008-11-11: 13:36:00
Love it. Just like the joke about MPE's - Meals Pre-Excreted.
yellowbird - 2008-11-11: 13:41:00
that's what i get for using a new laptop - my comment ends up in the wrong place. I hope i didn't accidentally vote for myself too.
jack189 - 2008-11-11: 16:59:00
vote n disgustisive and demealiorize
jack189 - 2008-11-11: 17:00:00
whoops
Today's definition was suggested by zebrahdh. Thank you zebrahdh. ~ James