Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v., To leave out an important ingredient when you are sharing a favorite recipe so that no one else can make it taste as good as yours. n., A recipe that is missing one or more key ingredients.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Recipaucity
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ress-uh-PAW-city
Sentence: Horace jealously guarded the recipes he'd crafted over the years and when asked for any of them he would always leave out two or three crucial ingredients, thereby creating something of a recipaucity rather than a complete recipe.
Etymology: Blend of 'recipe', and 'paucity' ( an insufficiency; dearth) A play on the word 'reciprocity' (A mutual or cooperative interchange of favors or privileges)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Like it...clever - mweinmann, 2008-11-26: 09:31:00
Brilliant! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:38:00
----------------------------
Voidcipe
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: voyd-suh-pee
Sentence: If I make aunt carols avacado salad without avacados, noone will know it's hers. it will be my very own voidsipe
Etymology: void+recipe
Ingrediaint
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: in-gree-dee-eynt
Sentence: Sally always bugs Jason for his recipes. Somehow her versions never turn out the same as his. This might be because of the ingrediaints, those little components or techniques he "forgets" to tell her about.
Etymology: ingredient (something that enters as an element into a mixture) + ain't (is not)
Peculianary
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pek kul e an aree
Sentence: Henry was admired as a great cook by his friends, but was so protective of his secret recipes that he either left out a key ingredient or added something bizarre to the recipes he wrote out for his friends. This peculianary habit ensured that his dishes always turned out the best for him alone.
Etymology: Peculiar (beyond or deviating from the usual or expected) & Culinary ( of or relating to or used in cooking)
Formotage
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Form Oh Targe
Sentence: Rupert could not face the possibility that Mary would produce a superior tasting curry, so he engaged in formotage and neglected to mention the need to use fresh Galangal
Etymology: From 'formula' and 'sabotage'.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
I thought it was going to be a cheese recipe - fromage! - petaj, 2008-11-26: 19:26:00
----------------------------
Delessious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: diˈlesh əs
Sentence: Millie made the best pies in the county. She had the blue ribbons to prove it. She never wrote down her recipes so when asked she would write them from memory. Somehow they never turned out the same. Hers were delicious, theirs delessious. Maybe the fact that she would "forget" some key ingredient, by accident of course, had something to do with it.
Etymology: delicious (highly pleasant to the taste) + less (a smaller amount of; not as much)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:21:00
Mmmm Pies are the zenith of dessert making. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:38:00
Good word...less is more! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:38:00
----------------------------
Ersatcipe
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: ur-SATZ-uh-pee
Sentence: Leonardo was considered a master chef, but a trifle overprotective of his concoctshuns. His ERSATCIPE for renaissance rarebit was written in a strange mirrored code in the margins of his greasy diary, a sort of rosettascone of cookery. Leo was less than forthcrumbing about the ratios and quantities involved. Some said he was a Crunchausen who defectoformulated his dishes to conceal certain outgredients. When scholars deciphered and prepared them, they all agreed there was a certain flavoid in them all. Was the legendary Leonardo pseudosharing on purpose? His Plum pudding had no plums, his mincemeat pie contained no mincemeat, and his chowders were no better than a bowl of steam. Clearly, his ERSATCIPES lacked a certain...something. Even in this age of turkey byproducts and chicken pellets, brilliant minds still struggle to reproduce his most famous ERSATCIPE......the CORN DOGE.
Etymology: ERSATz+reCIPE=ERSATCIPE.........ERSATZ:being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation;German ersatz-, from Ersatz, noun, substitute.....RECIPE: a set of instructions for making something from various ingredients;Latin, take, imperative of recipere to take, receive.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
DOGE:the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa;Italian dialect, from Latin duc-, dux leader. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:25:00
I used to collect recipes until I discovered this website:
www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.html - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:29:00
I used to collect recipes until I discovered this website:
www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.htm
www.blackstump.com.au/recipes.html - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:29:00
Awww....just go here:
http://www.blackstump.com.au/ - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 10:31:00
fabulous story - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-26: 11:23:00
great puns ... my favorite is outgredients! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 12:51:00
Thanks all. You can blame that darned NOSILA for making me PUN-ch drunk.
Her prolific PUNDAZZLEMENT is beginning to influence me. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:02:00
Reading today's words made me famished. A new place called "The Dog House" just opened near me. I hope it's not a clip joint. later. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-26: 14:45:00
Great story!Glad my puns ignite your inner punster! When you go to the Dog House, have a toast for the rrest of us... Muzzle Tov! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 20:47:00
----------------------------
Deficipe
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: dih-fI-sih-pi
Sentence: Cheng is tired of people asking for his mouth-watering roast duck recipe, so he created a deficipe instead to be given out to anyone, anytime without have to worry if it would affect his restaurant business.
Etymology: 1) Deficient: falling short of some prescribed norm. 2) Recipe: directions for making something.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Cheng is tired of people asking for his mouth-watering roast duck recipe, so he created a deficipe instead to be given out to anyone, anytime without have to worry about his restaurant business. - logarithm, 2008-11-27: 01:34:00
Sheet I accidentally wrote the sentence in the comment box again! :-P - logarithm, 2008-11-27: 01:35:00
----------------------------
Recipionage
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ress-er-pee-a-narzh
Sentence: as i tasted the chocolate cake i had just made, the flavour of the anchovies was overwhelming...it was then i realised i had been a victim of recipionage
Etymology: recipe, espionage
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
ha, funny! - remistram, 2007-11-22: 09:41:00
----------------------------
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James